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" By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which 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... "
The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 66
by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 830 pages
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Gathered Flowers: Chiefly from the Works of the British Poets

1832 - 206 pages
...summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwooed, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. — Sweet...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. SHAKSFEARB. 90 SONNET. THE forward violet I thus did chide ; Sweet thief, whence...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...masked bud di-closes ; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed, and unrespccted fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so :...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LOTI. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...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...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distills your truth. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...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...made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, 62 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...
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Woman: as she is, and as she should be

Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...be a pretty fool, is preferred. — " 11 yu peu de femmcs dont le merlte dure plus que la Beauti *." But for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ! SHAKSPEAKE. With young men, respect is ordinarily a mere farce, and overacted ; whatever they may...
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A Garland of Love, Wreathed of Pleasant Flowers, Gathered in the Field of ...

Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...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...When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. SONNET LXIV. WHEN I have seen, by Time's fell hand defaced, The rich proud cost of out-worn bury'd...
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The Romance of Nature, Or, The Flower-seasons Illustrated

Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...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...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. 135 The forward violet I thus did chide : — Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 19

Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...is their show, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distills your truth." Beside these objections, which are equally applicable to the sonnets...
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The Romance of Nature, Or, The Flower-seasons Illustrated

Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...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 unvvoo'd, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so, Of their sweet deaths are...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...the perfumed tincture of the roses ; Hang on Ğuch thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue...; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. Poems. 298 Time. The end crowns all ; And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. 26...
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