 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...  Comus, a Mask - Page 37by John Milton - 1797 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1806 - 502 pages
...their gigantic erections, it may surely be allowed to accommodate to them the words •f Comus : — ' Coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, and tresses... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder...complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctnr'd lip for that, Love-darting... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 794 pages
...but riddling flir.r.. Home-keeping youths have ever home') r Our {loroachs will makewhat'sjEvrar^b Tt is for homely features to keep home ; They had their name thence. 3® — It is.obferye^ by fome, that .there is not* homely bat loves a looking-glaft. Smb.— Tht ir... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish Yi head. Beauty is Nature's brag, ari(] must \^ shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eves, or tresses... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, Theyhad their name thence , coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply 7ji> The... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 446 pages
...nothing more than the different words, derived from the same root. Thus, when Milton's Comus says " It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ;" he gives an example both of notation and of conjugates. Genus and species must be well understood... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 624 pages
...neglected rose, It withers on the stalk with lunguish'd head. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...features to keep home ; They had their name thence : Course complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to teaze the housewife's... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 620 pages
...brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, ttnd high solemnities, Where most may wonder at tlie workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home ; They had their name thence : Course complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to teaze the housewife's... | |
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