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" The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As 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 unwoo'd and unrespected fade,... "
The British Bibliographer - Page 17
by Sir Egerton Brydges - 1814
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...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...on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue's only in their show, They live unmov'd,...
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The Poems of William Shakespeare: Comprehending Venus and Adonis, Tarquin ...

William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...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...on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their vim\e's only in their show, They live unmov'd,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...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...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 unwoo'd and...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...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...on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue's only in their show. ' They live unmov'd,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...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...on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses But,7 for their virtue's only in their show, They live unmov'd,...
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Greene's Philomela. Greene's Arcadia. Southwell's The triumphs over death ...

Sir Egerton Brydges - English prose literature - 1815 - 508 pages
...fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a die As 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 virtues only in their shew, They live unmov'd and...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...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...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 unwoo'd, and...
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Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live ; The canker'd blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the...on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd, and...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 pages
...show ; their substance still lives sweet." So, in the fifty-fourth Sonnet : " The canker buds have full as deep a dye, " As the perfumed tincture of...such thorns, and play as wantonly, " When summer's breath their masqued buds discloses : " But for their virtue only is their show, " They live unwoo'd,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...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 4 ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses 5 ;...
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