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" 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 66
by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 830 pages
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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 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...roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, fcr their virtue only is their show, Thev e u d \ distils your truth. Il* No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than vou shall hear the surly sullen...
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The Rose: Its History, Poetry, Culture, and Classification

Samuel Bowne Parsons - Flowers in literature - 1847 - 302 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...Roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, — To endure the livery of a nun ; For aye...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on euch thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath unrespcctcd fade ; Me to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; i)f their sweet deaths are sweetest odours...
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The rose garden

William Paul - Rose culture - 1848 - 426 pages
...summer's breath their masked buds discloses t But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed, and unrespected fade ;— Die to themselves. Sweet...their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so of yon, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. I have made the...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath assage of half an acre of ground, lying between the...mountains which divide Thessaly from Greece, where sometim ; Di« to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made ; And...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...live unwoo'd, and unreapected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deathe are sweetest odours made: And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth.— 54. Not marble, not the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...roses, BOcK x.] STUDIES OF SHAKSPEHE. 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 imrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 73-74

Languages, Modern - 1885 - 982 pages
...the perfnmed tincttire of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play äs wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed and unrespected fade; Die so themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest...
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The Complete Works of Shakespere: Tragedies

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 594 pages
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