 | Literature - 1825 - 620 pages
...sentiment of it. The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. The finest ryes are not fine, if they say nothing. What is the finest...a discordant note, and hath no chords in it fit to be wakened ? Long live, therefore, say I, lovely natural locks at five and twenty, and lovely artificial... | |
 | 1825 - 648 pages
...are not fine, it' they say nothing. What is the finest harp (o me, strung with gold, and adorned wilh a figure of Venus, if it answer with a discordant note, and hath no chords in it fit to be wakened ? Long live, therefore, say I, lovely natural locks at five and twenty, and lovely artificial... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Beauty, Personal - 1847 - 388 pages
...incapable of a grace. The finest eyes are not fine, if they say nothing. What is the finest harp to us, strung with gold, and adorned with a figure of Venus,...a discordant note, and hath no chords in it fit to be wakened ? Long live, therefore, say we, lovely natural locks at five-and-twenty, and lovely artificial... | |
 | Ireland - 1857 - 1712 pages
...finest eyes are not fine if they say nothing. What is the finest harp to us, strung with gold, ami adorned with a figure of Venus, if it answer with a discordant note, and hath no chords in it fit to be wakened ? Long live, therefore, say we, lovely natural locks at five-and-twenty, and lovely artificial... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...condition she is placed. — Fordyce. 1146 The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. The finest eyes are not fine, if they say nothing. — Leigh Hunt. 1147 That celestial fire which excites and inflames the soul, that genius which consumes... | |
 | Martha Louise Rayne - American literature - 1885 - 578 pages
...the body of it ever fair. — Shakespeare. The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. The finest eyes are not fine if they say nothing. — Leigh Hunt. What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good ? Be good, be womanly,... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 626 pages
...beauty itself, to wit, the sentiment of it. The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. The finest eyes are not fine, if they...a discordant note, and hath no chords in it fit to be wakened ? Long live, therefore, say I, lovely natural locks at five and twenty, and lovely artificial... | |
 | Fashion - 1843 - 514 pages
...beauty itself, to wit, the sentiment of it. The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. The finest eyes are not fine if they say...finest harp to me strung with gold, and adorned with the figure of Venus, if it answer with a discordant note, and hath no chords in it fit to be wakened?... | |
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The first step in taste is to dislike all artifice ; the next is to demand nature in her perfection ; but the best of all is to find out the hidden beauty, which is the soul of beauty itself, to wit, the sentiment of it. The loveliest hair is nothing,... 