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" ... doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd... "
Notes and Queries - Page 110
1886
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...their virtue's only in their show, They live unmov'd, and unrespected fade, Die to th; 'nselves: sweet roses do not so, Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth. "' THE...
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The Poems of William Shakespeare: Comprehending Venus and Adonis, Tarquin ...

William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...their vim\e's only in their show, They live unmov'd, and unrespecte<l fade, Die to themselves : sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth, THE FORCE...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distills youi truth. SONNET...
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Aphorisms from Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...Virtue's only in their show, [ They live unmov'd, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves : — sweet Roses do not so ; Of their sweet Deaths are sweetest Odours made. ^r And so when Virtue graces Beautv's Youth, U'jien that shall fade, by Verse distills it's Truth*....
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...their virtue's only in their show, They live unmov'd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves : sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth. [6] The...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...their virtue's only in their show. ' They live unmov'd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves : sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth, THE FORCE...
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The British Bibliographer, Volume 4

Samuel-Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1814 - 700 pages
...for their virtue only is their shew, Thpylire onwoo'd and unresptcted fade ; Die in themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so of yon, beauteous and loTeiy youth,* • When thai shall lade, my verse distills your truth....
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Greene's Philomela. Greene's Arcadia. Southwell's The triumphs over death ...

Sir Egerton Brydges - English prose literature - 1815 - 508 pages
...their virtues only in their shew, They live unmov'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves : sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so when Virtue graces Beauty's youth, When that shall fade, by verse distills its truth. Shakespeaie's...
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Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves — Sweet roses do not so, Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made ; And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade my verse distils your truth. SONNET...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth." In...
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