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" O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ;... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text of J ... - Page 289
by William Shakespeare - 1843
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English Composition

John Nichol - English language - 1893 - 264 pages
...crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, (2) " O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted,...with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright...
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The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare - 1893 - 222 pages
...blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend, I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might Become your time of day ; and yours, and yours,...now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon I daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,...
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The winter's tale. The life and death of King John. The tragedy of King ...

William Shakespeare - 1894 - 586 pages
...blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend. I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,...with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes 131 Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright...
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Comedy of The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare - 1879 - 232 pages
...blow you through and through. :Tow, my fair'st friend, I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,...frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, 9S.C^'' 'J ' That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,...
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The Scientific Monthly, Volume 2

James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1916 - 662 pages
...things of creation. Perdita's speech in " The Winter's Tale," so often quoted, claims first attention : O Proserpina! For the flowers now that frighted thou...with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes OrCytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright...
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La Métamorphose dans la poésie baroque française et anglaise: variations et ...

Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani - Barock - 1980 - 262 pages
...finissant, les fleurs de la jeunesse, les fleurs du printemps. Et c'est alors que s'élève la supplique: О Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou...with beauty; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright...
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Mourning and Panegyric: The Poetics of Pastoral Ceremony

Celeste Marguerite Schenck - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 248 pages
...with funeral wreathing: Perdita: Now my fair'st friend, I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,...with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright...
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Shakespeare's Romance of the Word, Volume 10

Maurice Hunt - Drama - 1990 - 196 pages
...o'th' spring, that might Become your time of day; and yours, and yours, [To Mopsa and the other girJs] That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads...with beauty; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...dull earth dwelling. To her let us garlands bring. 107 I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,...flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets...
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The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 164 pages
...That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing. — O Proserpina, For the flow'rs now, that (frighted) thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon:...with beauty; violets (dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath) . . . It is as though the mythical transformative energies of...
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