 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 17by Sir Egerton Brydges - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Books - 1823 - 428 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 shew, They live unwoo'd and... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 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 shew, They live unwoo'd and... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1823 - 426 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 shew, They live unwoo'd and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 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, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly, Whensummer'sbreath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Floriculture - 1825 - 516 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 unmoved, and... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...looks fair, but fairer we it dqem 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... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For tliat 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 bud di-closes ; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed, and... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live ; The cankered 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 unwooed, and... | |
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