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" My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in... "
The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]. - Page 158
1835
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection from the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...lips' red : If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses, damask'd red and white,...such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes there is more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, —...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British ..., Volume 3

New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...lips' red : If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses, damask'd red and white,...such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes there is more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, —...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection from the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...lips' red : If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses, damask'd red and white,...such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes there is more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, —...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...then her breast* are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses dumasL'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes r.< there more delight, Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I Jove to hear her speak, —...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...lips' red : If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,...I love to hear her speak,— yet well I know That musickhath a far more pleasing sound ; I grant I never saw a goddess go,— My mistress, when she walks,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,...breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak,—yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound ; I grant I never saw a goddess...
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The Parterre, Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...are dim ; head. 1 have seen roses damask'd, red and white, If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more delight reeks. I love to hear her speak,—yet well I know Than in the breath that from my mistress That music...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 596 pages
...finders walk — ] In the old copy, "thy" is misprinted tJuir, the error most common in the quarto, 1609. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no...mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well 1 know That music hath a far more pleasing sound : I grant I never saw a goddess go ; My mistress,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 606 pages
...contraction for ami. It seems impossible to make sense of the passage without the proposed alteration. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no...mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well 1 know That music hath a far more pleasing sound : I grant I never saw a goddess go ; My mistress,...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...her hreasts are dun ; If hairs he wires, hlack wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks...in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the hreath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, — yet well I know That music hath a...
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