| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 444 pages
...Shakspere makes the south steal odour from the violet. In his pgth Sonnet the violet is made the thief: ," The forward violet thus did I chide : " Sweet thief,...sweet that smells, ' .. " If not from my love's breath •?" MALONE. the sweet south,] The old copy reads • ' sweet sound, which Mr. Rowe changed into wind,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Prawn after you, you pattern of all those : Yet seem'd it...winter still, and you away, As with your shadow I with Ihese did play. The forward violet thus did I chide; Sweet thief! whence didst thou steal thy sweet... | |
| 1808 - 436 pages
...poets; on the contrary, we imagery is not so different from the European as we are apt to imagine. The forward -violet thus did I chide : " Sweet thief...smells, If not from my love's breath ? The purple priuc, Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells. In mv L ove's veins thou hast too grossly dyed."... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those : Yet seem'd...away, As with your shadow, I with these did play. The forward violet thus did I chide ; Sweet thief ! whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...away, As with your shadow I with these did play." And I am scarcely less persuaded that a third cluster, of nine, had the same source. These, too, are... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 pages
...white, Nor praise the deep vermillion in the rose ; They were, tho' sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...you away, As with your shadow I with these did play ! Scarcely less sure, or if a less valuable, not less indispensable mark will the imagery supply, when,... | |
| 1817 - 494 pages
...of all those. Yet seemed it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : The forward violet thus did I chide ;— Sweet thief,...didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from ray love's breath ? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells, In my love's veins... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 534 pages
...Shakspeare makes the wind steal odour from the violet. In his 99th Sonnet, the violet is made the thief : " The forward violet thus did I chide : " Sweet thief,...sweet that smells, " If not from my love's breath ? " MALONE. ' > Of what VALIDITY and pitch soe'er,] Validity is here used for value. MALONE. So, in... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...they grew : They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...away, As with your shadow, I with these did play." I am not aware of any writer of Sonnets worth mentioning here till long after Milton, that is, till... | |
| 1823 - 428 pages
...lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermillion in the rose ; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet, seem'd...away, As with your shadow I with these did play." CII. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; I love not less, though less the show... | |
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