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" 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... "
Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ... - Page 241
by John Milton - 1759 - 388 pages
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1753 - 418 pages
...neglcfted rofe It withers on the ftalk with languim'd head. Beauty is nature's brag, and muft be fhown In courts, in feafts, and high folemnities, Where...is for homely features to keep home, They had their uame thence; coarfe complexions And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply 750 743- 1/3** fa S'P timt'...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson ...

John Milton - English poetry - 1759 - 420 pages
...feao'er-fraught would fwell, and th 1 unfought diWould fo imblaze the forehead of the deep, (amends And fo beftud with ftars, that they below Would grow...vermeil-tinclur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or trefTes like the morn? There was another meaning in thefe gifts, 764 Think what, and be advis'd, you...
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Bell's British Theatre,: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays ...

English drama - 1777 - 380 pages
...muft be fliown In courts, at feafts, and high folemnities, Where moft may wonder at the workmanflrp. It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence : Coarfe complexion*, And cheeks of forry grain, will ferve to ply The iampler, and to teaze the bolifewife's...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volumes 3-5

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 890 pages
...neglefted rofe It withers on the ftalk with languim'd head. Beauty is nature's brag, and muft be mown 745 In courts, in feafts, and high folemnities, Where...complexions And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply 75o The fampler, and to teafe the hufwife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinftur'd lip for that, Love-darting...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 334 pages
...negleaed rofe It withers on the ftalk with languifh'd head. Beauty is nature's brag, and muft be mown 745 In courts, in feafts, and high folemnities, Where moft may wonder at the workman/hip } It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarfe complexions...
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Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays

John Bell - English drama - 1780 - 340 pages
...ihown *' In courts, at feails, and high folemnities, " Where moft may wonder at the workmanihip. " It is for homely features to keep home ; " They had their name thence. Coarfe с<мпр1схюп» . " And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply " The fampler and to tcafe the...
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Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin

John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...courts , infeafts, and high folennities, &c.] So Fletcher, FAITHF. SHEPH. A. i. S. i. vol.iii. p. 124. In courts, in feafts, and high folemnities, Where moft may wonder at the workmanfhip ; Give not yourfelf to lonenefs, and thofe graces Hide from the eyes of men, .that were intended To...
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Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 372 pages
...ACT I. Une 2 . ft* 0 ME-KEEPJNG ymith have ever homely . wits:] Milton has the same play on words: " It is for homely features to keep home, ." They had their name thence." STEEVENS. 8. shapeless idleness.] The expression is fine, as implying tiiat idleness prevents the giving...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32

John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 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...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 12

English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...headBeauty is nature's brag, and muft be fhown 743 In courts, in feafts, and high folemnities, ^ here moft may wonder at the workmanfhip ; It is for homely...complexions And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply 750 The lampler, and to teafe the hufwife's wcol. What need a vermeil-tinftur'd iip for that, Love-darting...
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