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" But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief. "
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett - Page 278
by William Leggett - 1840
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An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their ...

Anthony Blackwall - 1737 - 298 pages
...Obfervation and Reading. i. Beautiful Comparifon, and lively ; Image. She She never told her Love, But let Concealment, like a Worm i' th' Bud, Feed on her damask Cheek : She pin'd in And fat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at Grief- *. 2. and ftrong Defcription. Our Lives,...
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1752 - 456 pages
...your Lord(hip. Duke'. And what's her hiflory? Vio. A blank, my Lord : (he never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th" bud, Feed on her damask cheek : (lie pin'd in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She fat like Patience on a monument,....
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The Lady's Magazine: Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ..., Volume 38

John Huddlestone Wynne - 1807 - 744 pages
...Paphiau queen. From the hue of her complexion she seemed to be a maid ' who had never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, feed on her damask check.' This yellow beauty is Walsingham's sister. I5y her side sat a fashionable youth, gazing with...
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The Village Curate,: A Poem

James Hurdis - 1819 - 168 pages
...come tripping forth With mint and marj'ram, rosemary and rue : Or Viola, that never told her love, But let concealment like a worm i* th' bud Feed on her damask cheek. With hearty laugh We still dismiss the still outwitted rogue, But still pretending Falstaff. Then we...
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 pages
...its improbability, in the following beautiful lines of Shakespeare: " She never told her love; But let Concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, Feed on her damask cheek." But in these lines below the person of Reason obtrudes itself into qur company, and becomes disagreeable...
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The Port Folio, Volume 3

1810 - 566 pages
...passions in excess, seems to border on frenzy. Deefi melancholy described. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th* bud. Feed on her damask cheak. She pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy , She sat, like Patience on a monument...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...is an image of Patience. Speaking of a maid in love, he says, " • She never told her love, " But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, " Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought, " And sate like PATiENci on a monument, " Smiling at GRIEF." What an image is here...
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The British drama, Volume 2

British drama - 1804 - 630 pages
...from my soul. Л/ш Har. Then why won't you leave me ? Young Cla. ' She never told her love, ' But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, ' Feed on her damask cheek." Take warning, miss, when you once begin to pine in thought, 'tis all over with you ; and be assured,...
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The Temple of Nature, Or, The Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical ...

Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 pages
...any other ancient or modern : the following prosopopoeia from Shakespeare is thus beautiful. . She let Concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek. And the following line, translated from Juvenal by Dr. Johnson, is much superior to the original, owing...
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ...

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...saw; it is an image of Patience. Speaking of a maid in love, he says, — She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud. Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought, And sat like Patience on a. monument — t. . „ .;„ Smiling at grief. •*•...
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