 And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less: For what is noble should be sweet, But not dissolvd in wantonness.  Footsteps behind him - Page 32by William J. Stewart - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 462 pages
...wrong. Go choose among but with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler Jlouers. And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less : For what is noble should... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...wrong. Go choose among them, with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler flowers, And so let all your actions smile, As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less : For what is noble should... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 472 pages
...wrong. Go choose among but with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler flowers. And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less: For what is noble should be... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 472 pages
...wrong. Go choose among but with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs oer the gentler Jlowers. And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less : For what is noble should... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...wrong. Go choose among them, with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler flowers, And so let all your actions smile, As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, hut the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse . may meet, And yet the beauty not go less: For what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler flowers, And so let all your aetions smile, As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, langhter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beanty not go less: For what is noble should be... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1890 - 466 pages
...wrong. Go choose among but with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler flowers. And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less : For what is noble should... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Masques - 1890 - 452 pages
...wrong. Go choose among but with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler flowers. And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less : For what is noble should... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Masques - 1890 - 454 pages
...wrong. Go choose among but with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler flowers. And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, V And yet the beauty not go less : ~Y~'For what is noble should... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1913 - 206 pages
...wrong. Go choose among but with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs o'er the gentler flowers. And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less : For what is noble should... | |
| |
