| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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