 | 1834 - 464 pages
...nearer and nearer to the half-way house of life's journey, she became more and more convinced, that " Earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which,...thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." It was under the influence of this conviction that she listened, with something like impatient complacency,... | |
 | George Daniel - English literature - 1835 - 366 pages
...select? In Jaffier's frantic wife, that steadfast grief, Which knows no intermission, no relief, " Earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which,...thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness." " Your eyes are lode-stars, and your tongue's sweet air More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,... | |
 | George Daniel - English literature - 1835 - 376 pages
...that steadfast grief, Which knows no intermission, no relief, " Earthlier happy is the rose distil I'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness." " Your eyes are lode-stars, and your tongue's sweet air More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,... | |
 | lady Catherine Stepney - 1835 - 996 pages
...cloister mew'd. To live a barren sister all your life. Chanting faint hymns to the cold fraitless moon. Thrice blessed they that master so their blood. To undergo such maiden pilgrimage — Bat earthlier happy is the rose distilled. MIDSUMMER NIGsT'S DREAM. TIME passed on, as time ever... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...cloister mewed, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold, fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To...maiden pilgrimage : But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all vour life. Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. happy2 is the rose distilPd? Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
...(in spirit and substance) of the result be given, than in the closing lines of Theseus's speech — But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that...thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.* Mrs. Browning's spinster poetess, who has won renown by her verses, but sits alone o' nights, muses... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master no <i Whose voH . lier. So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship,... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 476 pages
...heavenly-bright, sweettempered. These are compared by adding the er and the est to tiie first adjective. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To...distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thoru, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. MND 1. 1. * Much difficulty arises from the vast... | |
 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - History - 1990 - 284 pages
...live a barren sister all your life. Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood To undergo such maiden pilgrimage: But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.... | |
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Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage : But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 
