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" The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it 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... "
The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes - Page 138
by William Shakespeare - 1812
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 6; Volume 70

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 722 pages
...For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds ; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. XCV. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Uoth spot the beauty of thy budding name ! O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose ! That tongue...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...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...their deeds : Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. xcv. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,...
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Roland Cashel, Volume 3

Charles Lever - 1858 - 348 pages
...Enrique in the glen, and his last interview with Linton in his dressing-room. CHAPTER XIX. How sweete and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beautic of thy budding name. SOME years passed over, and the name of Roland Cashel ceased to be uttered,...
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Roland Cashel. With illustr. by H.K. Browne, Volume 2

Charles James Lever - 1858 - 332 pages
...to try and forget that life of civilisation which had cost him so dearly. CHAPTER XXXII. How sweete and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beautie of thy budding name. SOKE years passed over, and the name of Roland Cashel ceased to be uttered,...
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Roland Cashel. With illustr. by H.K. Browne, Volume 2

Charles James Lever - 1858 - 332 pages
...to try and forget that life of civilisation which had cost him so dearly. CHAPTER XXXII. How sweete and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beau tic of thy budding name. SOME years passed over, and the name of Roland Cashel ceased to be uttered,...
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A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare: With Remarks on ..., Volume 1

William Sidney Walker - 1860 - 574 pages
...ungrammatically ? They, surely. Sonnet xciv., — "The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die ; But if that flower...infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity." Is it base that is wrong ? or can Shakespeare have written. barest, in the sense of poorest, most meagre,...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...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...their deeds ; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. W. Shakespeare XXXIII THE LOVER'S APPEAL And wilt thou leave me thus ? Say nay! say nay! for...
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The Poetical Works of William Shakspeare and the Earl of Surrey

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 364 pages
...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...their deeds ; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. xcv. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 546 pages
...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...things turn sourest by their deeds ; Lilies that fester emell far worse than weeds. xcv. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker...
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 73

Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...pleasure. Compare especially with the last sentence quoted from Clarendon the following Sonnet : — " How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which,...fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name ! O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose ! That tongue that tells the story of thy days, Making...
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