 | English poets - 1801 - 382 strani
...me ; Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. THE SWEET NEGLECT. 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, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 strani
...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 - 1808 - 506 strani
...bear? Oh ! let the sound be less divine, Or look the nymph less fair. Vucal Magazine, SONG. 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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 strani
...theft to reveal, To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. THE SWEET NEGLECT. CTILL 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, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All ts... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 strani
...fires the vertue have To fright the frost out of the grave. FROM THE SIIENT WOMAN. XXXIX. [STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd : li'ly, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 482 strani
...when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. SONG. [From " The Silent Woman."] 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 strani
...lips upon, like a sponge. I have made a song, 1 pr'ythee hear it, o' the subject. SONG. • Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ' ; Still tu be powdered, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found.... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 strani
...Semper ntunditias, semper Basilissa, decoras, &c." See Whalley's Ben. Jonson, vol. II. p. 420. OTILL 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 strani
...The following pieces deserve, also, to be here transcribed. Song, in his ' 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 strani
...upon, like a sponge. I have made a song (I pray thee hear it) on the subject, [Pag* 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... | |
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STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. 
