 | Theology - 1828 - 682 pages
...inseparable — " Whose god is their belly," and " whose end is destruction." THE TWO COUSINS. -• AB lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines more bright; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all."... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...remember it is with human faculties as with liquors, the lightest will be ever at the top. — Swift: CXI. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. Jl. Bill CXII. cxm. After all, the most natural beauty in the world... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...remember it is with human faculties as with liquors, the lightest will be ever at the -top.—Swift. CXL As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. CXIL A. Hill. cxm. After all, the most natural beauty in the world is... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 408 pages
...in all her dewy beauty bright. Unfolding fair the last autumnal day. Thornton. Seasons, As lamps bum silent, with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. A. Hill. Perhaps the most complete assemblage of beautiful objects that can anywhere be found, is presented... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1830 - 514 pages
...insect vile and mean Must well, he knows, be magnified, Before it can be seen. UNOBTRUSIVE BEAUTY. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. THE FATE OF WOMEN. Ye heavens ! if innocence deserve your care Why have ye made it fatal to the fair... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1831 - 256 pages
...insect vile and mean Must well, he knows, be magnified, Before it can be seen. UNOBTRUSIVE BEAUTT. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. THE FATE OF WOMEN. Ye heavens! if innocence deserve your care, Base man the ruin of our sex was born... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - American literature - 1832 - 338 pages
...more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love ? . . Rowe. "\ ' As lamps buru silent, with unconscious light, So modest ease in...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. .1. ///'//. Bcllis. Innocence. Whose white investments figure innocence.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...shall every pang appease, And charm — when pleasures lose the power to please. UNOBTRUSIVE BEAUTY. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. FORBEARANCE. ALL that is good and great in the universe is on the side of clemency and mercy. If we... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...the power to please. UNOBTRUSIVE BEAUTY. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest case in beauty shines most bright; Unaiming charms with...fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. FORBEARANCE. ALL that is good and great in the universe is on the side of clemency and mercy. If we... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...mood shall every pang appease, And charm — when pleasures lose the power to plea UNOBTRUSIVE BEAUTY. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Un aiming1 charms with edge resistless fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. FORBEARANCE.... | |
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As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. 
