 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 360 pages
...doth hide, To make some special instant special blest, By new unfolding his imprison'd pride. Lin. What is your substance, whereof are you made, That...you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, nnd the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set, And you... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Sonnets, English - 1881 - 354 pages
...tend ? Since every one hath, every one, one fliade, And you, but one, can every fhadow lend. Defcribe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's cheek all art of beauty fet, And you in Grecian tires are painted new : Speak of the fpring and foifon of the year, The one... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 336 pages
...lend ? Since every one hath, every one, one fhade, And you, but one, can every fhadow lend. Defcribe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you ; On Helen's cheek all art of beauty fet, And you in Grecian tires are painted new : Speak of the fpring and foifon of the year. The one... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...cross. Ah, but those tears are pearl, which thy love sheds, And they are rich, and ransom all ill deeds. WHAT is your substance, whereof are you made. That millions of strange shadows on you tendf Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe... | |
 | Kegan Paul - 1883 - 332 pages
...robe doth hide, To make some special instant special blest, By new unfolding his imprison'd pride. What is your substance, whereof are you made, That...Grecian tires are painted new : Speak of the spring and foison of the year, The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 944 pages
...yon. whose worthiness gives scope, Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope. LIII. What is yonr substance, whereof are you made, That millions of...Grecian tires are painted new : Speak of the spring and foison of the year ; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear... | |
 | Georg Gottfried Gervinus - 1883 - 1020 pages
...epigrams, is the same as that which prevails in most of these sonnets. In the 53rd sonnet he says : — Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated...beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. We should think this alludes directly to both poems ; the first passage distinctly; the second almost... | |
 | Michal Kobialka - Performing Arts - 1999 - 324 pages
...piece some time ago, called Crooked Eclipses, a kind of visual fugue on the theme of its opening line: "What is your substance, whereof are you made, / That millions of strange shadows on you tend?" 5 At the extremity of this question there is potentially a double anguish, the anguish of a scrutiny... | |
 | Robert Nye - Fiction - 1999 - 428 pages
...the Fair Youth which I believe might first have been addressed to the Dark Lady. They run as follows: What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? That is Lucy Negro and her house. Lucy means light, and Negro of course means black. Some say that... | |
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...PARTI Introduction Reading New Life into Shakespeare's Sonnets A Survey of Criticism James Schiffcr What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? —Sonnet 53.1 -21 A common practice in many accounts of the reception history of Shakespeare's Sonnets... | |
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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... 
