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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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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 606 pages
...thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue8 only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...summer's hreath their masked huds discloses ; But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwooed, and unrespected fade ¡ Die to themselves : sweet...sweet deaths are sweetest odours made ; And so of you, heauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade my verse distills your truth. Not marhle, nor tho...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 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...and lovely youth , "When that shall fade , my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble , nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...the perfumed tincture of the rose«, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath amping lion rushed suddenly, Hunting full greedy after...when as he drew more nigh, His bloody rage assuaged distils your truth. No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell...
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Specimens of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...breaththcirmaskedbndgdiscloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and uninspected , tliat shall fade my verse distils your truth. SONNET CXVI. LET me not to the marriage of true minds...
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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 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...roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, fcr their virtue only is their show, Thev e u d \ distils your truth. Il* No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than vou shall hear the surly sullen...
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The Rose: Its History, Poetry, Culture, and Classification

Samuel Bowne Parsons - Flowers in literature - 1847 - 302 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...Roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, — To endure the livery of a nun ; For aye...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on euch thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath unrespcctcd fade ; Me to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; i)f their sweet deaths are sweetest odours...
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The rose garden

William Paul - Rose culture - 1848 - 426 pages
...summer's breath their masked buds discloses t But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed, and unrespected fade ;— Die to themselves. Sweet...their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so of yon, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. I have made the...
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