Gerald Marlowe's wife, by J. Calder Ayrton, Volumen2

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Página 172 - 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. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Página 171 - As the husband is, the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
Página 34 - Every gate is thronged with suitors, all the markets overflow. I have but an angry fancy: what is that which I should do?
Página 127 - ... good head must have a certain length and breadth, to which such a phrase as small can never reach. One of the kindest heads I ever saw on a Hereford cow was that of Stately 2d, the property of Mr Evans, of Swanstone, though she never did quite so well in public as might have been expected ; but " If to her share some trifling errors fall, Look in her face and you'll forget them all.

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