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" A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility : Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part. "
Habits and Men: With Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of Both - Page 10
by Dr. Doran (John) - 1855 - 402 pages
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ...

William Oldys - 1740 - 326 pages
...winning wave (deferving note) In the tempeftuous petticoat : .A carelefs fhoe-ftring, in whofe tie .1 fee a wild civility ; Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precife in every part. Herrid. i . What cloaths to wear, the firft occafion Of wearing cloaths, will...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pages
...winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoe-string, in \vhose tie I see a wild civility ; Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part. XXIX. KISSING USURY. BIANCHA, let Me pay the debt M (5. arme" 3, and ot . and SeI owe thee for a kiss...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 1

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 698 pages
...note, In the tempestuous petticote ; A carelesse shooe-string, in whose tye I see a wild civility ; Doe more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part." Mark the ease, the play, the curiosa felicitas, of this exquisite little poem. Could it have been as...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...winning wave, deserving note In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoe-string, in whose tío I To find God. Weigh me the fire ; or canst thou find A way to measure out the wind ; Di.itinguish all...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...winning wave, deserving note In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I ܴ } ^ i A; 祗v } ̯ t + G = _ أ W y꩹ . p Y To find God. Weigh me the fire ; or canst thou find A way to measure out the wind ; Distinguish all...
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Habits and Men: With Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of Both

Dr. Doran (John) - 1854 - 436 pages
...winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility ; Do more bewitch me, than when...which Moore followed when called upon to deck his Nora Creina : — " The airy robe I did behold, As airy as the leaves of gold, Which erring here and wandering...
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Habits and men

John Doran - 1854 - 442 pages
...winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility ; Do more bewitch me, than when...which Moore followed when called upon to deck his Xora Creina: — " The airy robe I did behold, As airy as the leaves of gold, Which erring here and...
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The London Quarterly Review VOL.IV April and July,1855

The London Quarterly Review VOL.IV April and July,1855 - 1855 - 590 pages
...winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility ; Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part." It is not to be supposed that this is an apology for a slattern ; it is merely the poetical way of...
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The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty ...

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...have thought so ; for he says, — " A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Does more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part." Compare Raphael's boy in such a simple dress with the portrait of a knight of the garter in full costume,...
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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 pages
...winning wave, deserving note In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility : Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part." A Virginia woman is too free, too lithe in her movements to keep up the unvarying precision of a lay-figure....
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