| British anthology - 1824 - 460 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 checks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, aud to tease the housewife's... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...must be shewn I n eourts, in feasts, and high soleumities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship; : So, from the first, eternal order ran, And thenee ; eoarse eomplexions, And eheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...must be shown 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 The sampler, and to tease the housewife's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 pages
...in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, 1 Milton has the same play upon words in his Comns. " It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence." 3 The expression shapeless idleness is admirably expressive, as implying that idleness prevents the... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 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... | |
| 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«.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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