 Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly ; A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud ; A brittle glass, that's broken presently : A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an...  Conversation; or, Shades of difference - Page 34by Heron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1892 - 126 pages
...flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud ; A brittle glass that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. IBID, Passionate Pilgrim. Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1841 - 586 pages
...Devon, slowly, and half-smiling. "I am very handsome, I know; but what then? Beauty is — ' A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower. Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour!' And the reason I remained silent was, because 1 had nothing to say. I felt quite happy in being permitted... | |
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