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A Summer Night
Matthew Arnold
Plainness and clearness without shadow of...
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An answer in the behalf of a woman.
Henry Howard
Shall find where plainness seems to haunt, nothing but craft...
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Eyes
Charles Lamb
Only Jenny's eyes we see,
By their very plainness, free
From the vices which do smother
All the beauties of the...
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Neatness In Apparel
Charles Lamb
A reservëd plainness use;
By their neatness more distinguished...
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Prologue Spoken at the Opening of The New House, March 26, 1674
John Dryden
We in our plainness may be justly proud;
Our Royal Master willed it should be so;
Whate 'er he's pleased to own,...
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Slow Down And Look Closely
haleyc19
Simpleness, plainness,
You still haven't guess right...
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The Children Of The Lord's Supper. (From The Swedish Of Bishop Tegner)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christianly
plainness
Clothed from his head to his feet the old man of seventy...
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The Future
Matthew Arnold
Of God, of the world, of the soul,
With a plainness as near,
As flashing as Moses felt
When he lay in the night by his flock
On the starlit...
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The Two Elizabeths
John Greenleaf Whittier
Shamed with her plainness Fashion's gaudy show,
And overcame the world she did not...
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To Dr. Sherlock, On His Practical Discourse Concerning Death
Matthew Prior
Thy even thoughts with so much plainness flow,
Their sense untutor'd infancy may know;
Yet to such height is all that plainness...
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To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys
Henry King
Men who a rustick plainnesse so affect,
They think God served best by their...
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