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" Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text of J ... - Page 430
by William Shakespeare - 1844
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...Shakspere's own playful sonnet did not occur to him as a closer example of this ridicule : — " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses seс I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...Shakspere's own playful sonnet did not occur to him as a closer example of this ridicule : — " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damaek'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 484 pages
...in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, — and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream : All this the world well knows ;...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Poems. Verses among the additional ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pages
...in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, — and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream : All this the world well knows ;...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no su£h roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare...: Embracing a Life of ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 pages
...is one of the prettiest irr.s- de xociete that a Suckling, or a Moore, could have produced : — My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires gro\v on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 548 pages
...in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream : All this the world well knows ;...are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her headr I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such rojes see I in her cheeks ; And in some...
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The Poems of William Shakespear

William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 pages
...this the world well knows ; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this helL 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. » Part of the instrument called a virginal, which was a keyed instrument of one string, with a jack,...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...In the old copy, " thy " is misprinted their, the error most common in the 4to, l609. Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme,...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask' d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 2; Volume 76

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1897 - 876 pages
...the shackles of custom, and expresses his weariness of false comparisons in the sonnet beginning : My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; If haira be wires, black wires grow on her head, and ending with the fine outburst — And yet, by heaven,...
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The Loves and Heroines of the Poets

Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...growth, More flowers I noted, yet I none could see, But sweet or colour it had stolen from thee. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I on her cheeks ; And in some perfumes there is more...
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