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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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The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pages
...then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: I haee seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks;...Than in the breath that from my Mistress reeks: I loee to hear her speak,—yet well I know That music hath afar more pleasing sound; I grant I neeer...
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Works: Macbeth. Timon of Athens. Hamlet. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline ...

William Shakespeare - 1889 - 824 pages
...; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, ]3ut no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes...well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound j I grant I never saw a goddess go, — My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground ; And yet,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Edited from the ..., Volumes 1-2

William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1889 - 1032 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,...cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Thau in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak ; yet well I know That music...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pages
...cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress recks. I love to hear her speak, — yet well I know That...more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go,6 — My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Sonnets, English - 1890 - 356 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, But no such roses see I in her cheeks. " She had not even — so it would seem — the charm of a soft and melodious voice : — " I love...
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: As you like it. 1890

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 474 pages
...species of rose. WRIGHT: Red and white, like the colour of the damask roses. Compare Sonn. cxxx, 5 : ' I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.' [' Mingled damask ' is of course a colour, and a colour well known, but what the colour was, it is...
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The Works of Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Titus ...

William Shakespeare - 1891 - 500 pages
...dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, Hut no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes...well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound ; 1 grant I never saw a goddess go, — My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground ; And yet,...
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As You Like it: With Introduction & Notes

William Shakespeare - 1891 - 196 pages
...floures, for these are of a pale red colour and of a more pleasant smell." In Sonn. cxxx. 5, we have "I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks," and from this it appears possible that a variegated species was then known ; though damaxk'd may mean variegated...
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The Poems of Shakespeare: With a Memoir

William Shakespeare - 1894 - 392 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 musick hath a far more pleasing sound ; I grant I never saw a goddess go, — My mistress, when she...
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William Shakespeare

Barrett Wendell - 1894 - 460 pages
...her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,...cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more delight Thau in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music...
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