 I confess, Free from solicitude for dress; How best to bind my flowing hair With art, yet with an artless air, — My hair, like musk in scent and hue. Oh! blacker far, and sweeter too! In what nice braid or glossy curl To fix a diamond or a pearl, And...  The Curse of Kehama - Page 153by Robert Southey - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1804 - 820 pages
...of pleasure and of praise ' (With shame I speak) engross'd my days ; ' Nor were my night-thoughts, I confess, ' Free from solicitude for dress; * How...With art, yet with an artless air, ' (My hair, like mask in scent and hue j * Oh ! blacker far, and sweeter too) * In what nice braid or glossy curl '... | |
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1804 - 812 pages
...of pleasure and of praise ' (With shame I speak) engross'd my days ; ' Nor were my night-thoughts, I confess, ' Free from solicitude for dress; * How best to bind my flowing liair ' With art, yet with an artless air, ' (My hair, like musk in scent and hue ; ' Oh ! blacker... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 pages
...Magazine. WHAT'S A LABY'S BUSINESS? HOW best tp bind the flowing hair With art, yet with an artless air; In what nice braid, or glossy curl, To fix a diamond or a pearl, And how the purfled veil to choose From silken stores of varied hues ; Which may attract the roving view... | |
 | William Jones - 1818 - 312 pages
...engross'd my days; Nor were my night-thonghts, I confess, Free from solicitnde for dress : How hest to hind my flowing hair With art, yet with an artless air ; (My hair, like mask in scent and hne ; Oh ! hlacker far and sweeter too;) In what nice hraid or glossy cnrl To fix... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...thirst of pleasure and of praise (With shame I speak) engross'd my days ; Nor were my night-thoughts, I confess, Free from solicitude for dress ; How best...or jasmin's fragrant oils; How to adjust the golden teic*4, And most adorn my forehead sleek; What condals65 should emblaze my ears, Like Seita's waves66... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 636 pages
...deceiving me. —Asiatic Researches. No idle ornaments deface Her natural grace. — XIII. p. 110. The Hindoo Wife, in Sir William Jones's poem, describes...fix a diamond or a pearl, And where to smooth the love-spreaJ toils With nard or jasmin's fragrant oils; How to adjust the golden Teic*, And most adorn... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 338 pages
...deceiving me." — Asiatic Researches. No idle ornaments deface Her natural grace. — XIII. 13, p. 120. The Hindoo wife, in Sir William Jones's poem, describes...where to smooth the love-spread toils With nard or jasmine's fragrant oils; How to adjust the golden teic,* And most adorn my forehead sleek; What condals*... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 352 pages
...XIII. 13, p. 120. The Hindoo wife, in Sir William Jones's poem, describes her own toilet-tusks : — " Nor were my night thoughts, I confess, Free from solicitude...diamond or a pearl, And where to smooth the love-spread toila With nard or jasmine's fragrant oils; How to adjust the golden teic,* And most adorn my forehead... | |
 | William Jones - 1876 - 136 pages
...thirst of pleasure and of praise (With shame I speak) engross'd my days ; Nor were my night-thoughts, I confess, Free from solicitude for dress; How best...braid or glossy curl To fix a diamond or a pearl, 63. A mace, or club. • And where to smooth the love-spread toils With nard or jasmin's fragrant oils... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1880 - 618 pages
...Her natural grace. — XIII. 13, p. 120. The Hindoo wife, in Sir William Jones's poem, describes ttr own toilet-tasks: — " Nor were my night thoughts,...where to smooth the love-spread toils With nard or jasmine's fragrant oils; How to adjust the golden teic,* And most adorn my forehead sleek; What condals... | |
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