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The Complete Works of Shakespeare, from the Original Text: Tragedies

William Shakespeare, Charles Knight - 1854 - 684 pages
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The Poems of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 412 pages
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The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare and the Earl of Surrey

William Shakespeare, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 364 pages
...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...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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Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best Authors

1856 - 374 pages
...be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. — Johnson. MCXXIX. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die ; But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outhraves his dignity ; For sweetest things turn sourest...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 pages
...hearts bend downward, Cireling all the human raee. Whittier. Whittier. Praed. Mr-. Hale, CHASTITY. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die ; Bat if that flower with base infeetion meet, The basest weed outhraves his dignity ; For sweetest...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 736 pages
...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...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 Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Venus & Adonis. The rape of Lucrece ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 336 pages
...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...by their deeds ; Lilies that fester smell far worse tnan weeds. xcv. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame. Which, like a canker in the fragrant...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...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...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 Sonnets of William Shakspere: Rearranged and Divided Into Four Parts ...

William Shakespeare - 1859 - 130 pages
...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...die ; But if that flower with base infection meet, SONNETS. LXXXV. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant...
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The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 540 pages
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