 | Edmund Lodge - Celebrities - 1835 - 300 pages
...custom, fashion, and to show, As we enjoy but only the abuse, And have no other deed at all to show. How oft are we constrained to appear With other countenance...ourselves far off, when we are near ! How oft are we forc'd on a cloudy heart To set a shining face, and make it clear, Seeming content to put ourselves... | |
 | Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1850 - 304 pages
...particulars, and I beg you will be in my room at half-past twelve precisely, to give me your opinion on my address. Mr. Painter, I should like to have some...it clear, Seeming content to put ourselves apart, As if we only were composed by art, Not Nature. .... DANIEL. And will she love thee as well as I ?... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Literary Criticism - 1894 - 252 pages
...Countess of Bedford, in terza rima, is perhaps even more gracefully conducted to an academic close — How oft are we forced on a cloudy heart To set a shining...it clear, Seeming content to put ourselves apart, To bear a part of others' weaknesses ! As if we only were composed by Art, Not Nature, and did all... | |
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How oft are we forced on a cloudy heart To set a shining face and make it clear, Seeming content to put ourselves apart To bear a part of others' weaknesses! As if we only were composed by art, Not nature, and did all our deeds address T... 