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" And husband nature's riches from expense ; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection... "
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen - Page 213
1903
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...live and die ; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity : For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds ; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Sh. Sonnetucvr, When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What...
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The Handy-volume Shakspeare [ed. by Q.D.].

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 372 pages
...live and die ; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity : For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth...
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Remarks on the Sonnets of Shakespeare: With the Sonnets. Sho Wing that They ...

Ethan Allen Hitchcock - Hermetic philosophers in literature - 1866 - 298 pages
...; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For swestest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Tide Sonnet 93. XOV. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Richard Simpson - 1868 - 98 pages
...spiritual fragrance which captivates the mind ; but what if this sweetness " with base infection meet " ? For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds :...that fester smell far worse than weeds (Son. 94.) So he concludes by warning his friend that though his p beauty covers every blot, yet in time " the...
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Studies of Shakspere

Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...live and die ; But, if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds ; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. — 94. How sweet and lovely dost thon'make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant...
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Tò To ti ēn einai. Die Idee Shakespeare's und deren ..., Volume 147

Carl Karpf - 1869 - 204 pages
...only live and die; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity; For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds: Lilies*) that fester smell far worse than weeds. Sonett 95. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant...
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New Cyclopaedia of Poetical Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching ...

Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...live and die; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity ; y of. Up I up, my friend ! and quit your books, Or surely you'll grow double weeds. Shalcetpeare. 536. COEEUPTION, Extent of. Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable...
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Works, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...live and die ; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity : For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds ; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.1 xcv. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,...
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Anthologia Anglica, a new selection from the English poets from Spenser to ...

Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...live and die : But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity : For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds. VIII. THE SISTER ARTS. IF music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the...
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Lux E Tenebris; Or, The Testimony of Consciousness. A Theoretic Essay

Lux - Brain - 1874 - 398 pages
...live and die ; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed out- braves his dignity : For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds." § XXXVI. But the mind is not a mere mirror, presenting only reflections of the outer world...
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