 By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose 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...  The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 66by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 830 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 548 pages
...necklace. § Portrait. II Attire. T !• e. the plentiful season, the autumn. * " Canker-rose, or dog-rose. But, for* their virtue only is their show, They live...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 546 pages
...summer's breath their masked buds discloses: Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly * (Fear of). But, for* their virtue only is their show, They live...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...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...so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : » There is a somewhat similar thought in ' Henry IV., Part I. : ' — " My state, Seldom but sumptuous,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 484 pages
...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...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my3 verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...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...so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. Poemt. 122. Truth and beauty, their excellence. Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd ; Beauty... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwooed, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves : sweet roses...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade my verse distils your truth. 286 POWEK A.ND GENTLENESS. I 'VE thought, at gentle and ungentle hour, Of many... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrcspected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made ; i| And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...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 unrespceted laJe, Die to themselves — Sweet roses do not so, Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...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...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. There are many hundred acres of rose trees at Ghazeepore which are cultivated for... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 566 pages
...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...so, Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made." Notwithstanding this opinion, however, this rose is not only beautiful, but even slightly fragrant.... | |
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