 SONG. IN THE SILENT WOMAN. Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.  Specimens of the British Poets: Drayton, 1631, to Phillips, 1664 - Page 155edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine: Put, might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine ! STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdred, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd— Though art's hid causes are not foundAll is... | |
 | Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...who can bear? Oh! let the sound be less divine, Or look the nymph less fair. SONG. Vucal Magazine, STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...sweet theft to reveal, To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. THE SWEET NEGLECT, be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd; ly, it is to be presum'd, »' art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet; all is not... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...written some pieces of great sweetness and elegant simplicity i of which this is a very pleating example. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going...powder'd, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 518 pages
...heroil'd lips upon, like a sponge. I have made a song (I pray thee hear it) on the subject, [Page sings. Still to be neat, still to be drest* As you were going to a feast; 1 " This song," says Upton, " is very happily imitated from the following poem, which I found at the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 408 pages
...And while his powers and praises thus we sing, The valleys let rebound, and all the rivers ring FROM THE SILENT WOMAN. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feasti Scill to be powdered, still perfum'd : Lady, It is to be presum'd, Though art's hid eauses are... | |
 | English poetry - 1823 - 230 pages
...tyrant, tyrant of the mind. THE SWEET NEGLECT. THIS little madrigal is extracted from Ben Jonson's " Silent Woman." Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast: Still to be pou'dred, still perfum'd : Though art's hid causes are not found, 5 Lady, it is to be presum'd, All... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1823 - 450 pages
...beginning, " Semper munditias, semper Kasilitsa, decoras, fyc." See Whalley's Ben Jonson, vol. II. p. 420. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast: Still to be poud'red, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, 5 All... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...divinum vertice odorem " Spiravere." Virg. lib. i. 407. The well known lyric of Ben Jonson, beginning— Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, &c. is from Petronius. the dying and the dead ' . A Persian poet has an elegant stanza on the ringlets... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...breathe, how short soever : Thou that mak'st a day of night. Goddess excellently bright. FROM THE SII.F.NT WOMAN. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
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