 Past reason hated as a swallowed bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad. Mad in pursuit and in possession so, Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme, A bliss in proof and proved, a very woe, Before a joy proposed behind a dream. All this the...  The Poems of Shakespeare - Page 181by William Shakespeare - 1898 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett - 1883 - 1070 pages
...the taker mad ; Mad in pursuit, and in possession so ; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof — and proved, a very woe ; Before,...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. SHAKESPEARE'S DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. OF the two narrative or rather descriptive poems which we possess... | |
 | Kegan Paul - 1883 - 332 pages
...and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and prov'd, a very woe ; Before, a joy propos'd ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows ; yet...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red : If snow be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 944 pages
...and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and prov'd, a very woe ; Before, a joy propos'd ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows ; yet...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red ; If snow be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 946 pages
...and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and prov'd, a very woe ; Before, a joy propos'd ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows ; yet...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red ; If snow be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 972 pages
...in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and, prov'd, a very woe ; " Before, a joy propos'd ; behind, a dream : All this the world well knows ;...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell cxxxni. CXXX. 89. t My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips'... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Richard Chenevix Trench - 1884 - 304 pages
...the taker mad. Mad in pursuit, and in possession so ; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof — and proved, a very woe ; Before,...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell." It has been sometimes debated how far Shakespeare knew himself for all that he was, was aware of the... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 pages
...is a genuine feeling animating the sonnets which sufficiently proves that they had a real object — cxxx. " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red : And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare." CXLVIII. "0 cunning... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1884 - 854 pages
...again set forth : 'My mistress' eyes are raven black, Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem.' ' My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red : H snow be while, why then her breasts are dun } If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.'... | |
 | 1885 - 922 pages
...concupiscence, or hell in the heart : it is sin in conception or before the act, "till action," — "A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe ; Before,...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell." This sonnet is one of the most vivid, comprehensive, and masterly of all the Sonnets of Shakespeare.... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...taker mad : Mad in pursuit, and in possession so ; Had, having, and in request to have, ext remc ; A bliss in proof, — and proved, a very woe ; Before,...well To shun the Heaven that leads men to this Hell. 3LuS't. — Shakespeare. WITHIN a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous Tears Had left the flushing... | |
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