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" But you like none, none you, for constant heart. LIV O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem 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... "
The Works of Shakespeare - Page 736
by William Shakespeare - 1864
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...doth give I 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...unwoo'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet ro>es do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses S But, for their virtue only is their show, They live...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distills youi truth. SONNET LV. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 pages
...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, ••'...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth." Son. 54. In /spirit, however^ in elegance, in the skill and texture...
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Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - 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...buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves — Sweet roses do not so, Of their...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves...you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade my verse distils your truth. SONNET 116. LET me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments....
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...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...buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...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...buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...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...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this...
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Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the ...

Elizabeth Kent - 1825 - 516 pages
...than gold: " 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...But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unmoved, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves ; sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...rose 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...buds discloses; But for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves—Sweet roses do not so, Of their...
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