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" In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence... "
Lectures on the English Language - Page 71
by George Perkins Marsh - 1863 - 498 pages
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson ...

John Milton - English poetry - 1759 - 420 pages
...be fhown 755 In courts, in feafts, and high folemnities, Where moft may wonder at the workmanfhip; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence; coarfe complexions And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply 760 The fampler, and to teafe the hufwife's...
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Bell's British Theatre,: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays ...

English drama - 1777 - 380 pages
...muft be fliown In courts, at feafts, and high folemnities, Where moft may wonder at the workmanflrp. It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence : Coarfe complexion*, And cheeks of forry grain, will ferve to ply The iampler, and to teaze the bolifewife's...
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...be mown 745 In courts, in feafts, and high folemnities, Where moft may wonder at the workmanfhip ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarfe complexions And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply 750 The fampler, and to teafe the...
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Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays

John Bell - English drama - 1780 - 340 pages
...ihown *' In courts, at feails, and high folemnities, " Where moft may wonder at the workmanihip. " It is for homely features to keep home ; " They had their name thence. Coarfe с<мпр1схюп» . " And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply " The fampler and to tcafe...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32

John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...be shown 745 In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their...complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinftur'd lip for that, Love-darting...
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Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 372 pages
...ACT I. Une 2 . ft* 0 ME-KEEPJNG ymith have ever homely . wits:] Milton has the same play on words: " It is for homely features to keep home, ." They had their name thence." STEEVENS. 8. shapeless idleness.] The expression is fine, as implying tiiat idleness prevents the giving...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 12

English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...be fhown 743 In courts, in feafts, and high folemnities, ^ here moft may wonder at the workmanfhip ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence; coarfe complexions And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply 750 The lampler, and to teafe the hufwife's...
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Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin, with Translations ...

John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...mew. A rofy-tinftur'd feature is heauen's gold Which all men joy to touch, and to behold, &c. Here It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarfe complexions. And cheeks of forry grain, will ferve to ply The fampler, and to teafe the hufwife's...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 606 pages
...have ever homely iuitt .-] Milton has the fame play on words, in his MaJ'qtte at Ludlovi Caftle : " It is for homely features to keep home, " They had their name thence." STKEVBNS. * Jbapelefs idlenefs.] The expreffion is fine, as implying that idlenefs prevents the giving...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: Glossarial index ...

William Shakespeare - English drama - 1793 - 632 pages
...youth bavt ever homely tuiti ;] Milton has the fame play on words, in his Ma/jue at Ludlmu Cajile : " It is for homely features to keep home, " They had their name thence." STEEVENS. s Jbaptlefs idlenefs.] The expreflion is fine, as implying that ijlcttrjs prevents the giving...
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