 | Robert Anderson - 1795
...forehead's fmoother Than words that footh her '. And from her arched brows, fuch a grace Sheds itfelf through the face ; As alone, there triumphs to the life, All the gain, all the*good, of the elemeztt fln/:. Have you feen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch... | |
 | Oxford city, Holywell music room - 1808
...a sight) That they still were to run by her side Thro' swords, thro' seas, whither she would ride. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have pluckt it ? Ha' you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Ha' you felt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...but mark, her forehead's smoother Tban word.i that sooth her ! And from her arch'd brows such a grace Sheds itself through the face; As alone there triumphs...seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it •' Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soul hath smutch'd it ? Have you... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816
...but mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that sooth her : And from her arched brows, such a grace Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs...seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it? Have you mark'd but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816
...mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her ! And from her arched brozvs, such a grace Sheds itself through the face; As alone, there triumphs...All the gain, all the good, of the elements strife ! • And could make More wanton salts.] ie leapings, or boundings, from the Latin saltus. WHAL. Have... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816
...mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her ! And from her arched brows, such a grace Sheds itself through the face ; As alone, there triumphs...life, All the gain, all the good, of the elements strifel - And could make More wanton salts.] ie leaping:, or boundings, from the Latin taltus. WHAL.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 356 pages
...mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her : And from her arch'd brows, such a grace Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs...seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Ha' you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Ha' you felt... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 218 pages
...mark, her forehead's smoother Than words that soothe her : And from her arch'd brows, such a grace Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs...seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Ha' you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Ha' you felt... | |
 | 1843
...still were to run by her side, Through swords, through seas, whither she would ride. Well they might. Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have tonch'd it? Have you mark'd but the fall o' the snot* <t• 1 "iJ '•'. ••• Before the soil... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - 1825 - 464 pages
...than the rose itself. Ben Jonson, to express the extreme loveliness of a beautiful woman, asks — " Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it?" " The lily, of all children of the spring The palest — fairest too where fair ones are."... | |
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Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements 
