 In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's...  The Recluse of Norway - Page 59by Anna Maria Porter - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features, to keep home, They had their name thence; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, wilt serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...they endeavour to adorn themselves, the more they expose the defects they want to hide. Clarendon. It is for homely features to keep home ; They had their name thence. Milton. But when such amity at home is showed, What then are their confederacies abroad . Л/дате«.... | |
 | 1831 - 596 pages
...must be shown In courts, in feasts, in nigh solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions And checks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...rather ugly, without using so ugly a word. Milton explains tlijs usage of the word in his Comus : — " It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence." The list of words in ly, which are used as adverbs, is rather numerous ; very few of the class, we... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...732 The sea] See Benlowes's Theophila, st. xvii. p. 97. Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...be shown 745 In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; but like lovers those r These fain would keep, and those more fai ; coarse compleiions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship : It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; express'd ; And his own work, as in creation, bless'd. The tempte ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the... | |
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