 | Julia Georgiana Longe - 1911 - 446 страници
...repairs The loss of changed or falling hairs ; How wit and virtue from within Send forth a smoothness of the skin. Your lectures could my fancy fix, And I can please at thirty-six. When men began to call me fair You interposed your timely care. You early taught me to despise The... | |
 | John Irwin Fischer, Donald Charles Mell, David M. Vieth - 1981 - 228 страници
...to bring supplies Of lustre to my fading eyes; How soon a beauteous mind repairs The loss of chang'd or falling hairs; How wit and virtue from within Send out a smoothness o'er the skin. ("To Dr. Swift on his birth-day," 11. 33-40) This synopsis of Swift's lore is not essentially stoic,... | |
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Nor was a burden to mankind With half her course of years behind. You taught how I might youth prolong, By knowing what was right and wrong; How from my heart to bring supplies Of lustre to my fading eyes; How soon a beauteous mind repairs The loss of... 
