 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence. — Quarles. 914 Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; but is, when unadorned, adorned the most. — Thomson. 915 Beauty ! thou pretty plaything, dear deceit ! — Blair. 916 The soul-subduing sentiment,... | |
 | Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...limbs, Veiled in a simple robe ; their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty's self, Recluse amid the close embowering woods. As in the hollow... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...therefore, that corresponds with right reason, and is not merely the creature of fancy. Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophratus, a silent cheat;... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...a downward age. Line isio. Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain. Autumn. Line -2. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most.1 Line 204. He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty concealed.... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Oratory - 1885 - 436 pages
...ornatast.' Id ¡pan in, 'the very absence of adornment.' Thomson's Seasons, Autumn 204, 'Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament. But is, when unadorned, adorned the most'. etiam Incompta, 'even in disarray', lit. 'unkempt', used to keep up the comparison of the oratio to... | |
 | Photography - 1885 - 452 pages
...improve none. If a woman's ear be pretty what in the whole of nature can be prettier ? Surely it " Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, ^ But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." If it be not pretty — well, why emphasize and call attention to the fact by means of gold and silver... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...limbs, Veiled in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most ; Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Recluse amid the close-embowering woods. As in the... | |
 | Horatio Greenough - 1887 - 256 pages
...not only illustrated Moore and Byron, but contradicted Thomson, who asserts that " Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." After a winter in Florence, Horatio Greenough persuaded his brother to accompany him to Graefenberg... | |
 | Pierce Egan, Charles Hindley - London (England) - 1888 - 264 pages
...shown it more than in the present instance — according to the poet, ' Beauty ; or, Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most ! ' Going — CLEOPATRA, my Lord Duke, will be in other hands if your Grace does not make up your mind... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - Quotations, English - 1890 - 426 pages
...Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments... | |
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Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most. 
