Sonnets ...: With an Introduction & NotesG. Bell & sons, 1902 - 181 pages |
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bear beauteous beauty's better better angel breath bright brow BYAM SHAW CHARLES WHITTINGHAM chide Chiswick Shakespeare churl CIII critic cruel CXII CXIII CXXV CXXVII dark lady dead death decay delight disgrace dost thou Dowden edition eye doth face false fear flowers forsworn gentle GEORGE BELL give grace happy hate hath heaven John Dennis Limbecks live look love thee love's Love's fire lovest LXXXIII mind mistress Muse night o'er Passionate Pilgrim Pembroke pity pleasure poet poet's praise proud prove rose shadow shalt shame shouldst sight Sonnets soul Southampton spirit steal stol'n summer's swear taste tell thine eyes things thou art thou dost thou hast thou mayst thou wilt thought thy beauty thy heart thy love thy sweet thy worth thyself Time's tongue true truth Venus and Adonis verse volumes waste Whilst XCVIII youth
Popular passages
Page 66 - IKE as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, -*— ' So do our minutes hasten to their end ; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Page 34 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 119 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners breeds, Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 115 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom.
Page 37 - I'll read, his for his love.' (xviii) FULL many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace...
Page 22 - I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 59 - What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new...
Page 27 - As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart...
Page 58 - I'll run, and give him leave to go. LII OO am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet uplocked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
Page 146 - Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue : On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.