 The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But for their virtue only is their show They live unwooed, and unrespected fade,...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 135edited by - 1785Full view - About this book
 | Robert Nares - English language - 1784 - 554 pages
...Sonnet 104. And in fome perfumes there is more delight. Ib, 130. But in the following paflage we fiud the accent of the verb placed as it now is ufed: The...canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the rofes. SHAKSP. Sonnet 54. And the fubftantive is fo ufed by Milton : Now gentle gales... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For tliat sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When Summer's breath their masked... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When Summer's breath their masked... | |
 | William Paul - Rose culture - 1848 - 426 pages
...doth give ! The Rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the Roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked... | |
 | Joseph Breck - Floriculture - 1851 - 346 pages
...gold : — 1 The Rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the Roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 422 pages
...thus :— " The rose looks fair, but fairer it we deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live; The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked... | |
 | ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 494 pages
...i, 3. To put down Kichard, that sweet lovely rose, And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly. 1 Hen. IV, i, 3. Also a worm, or... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...ounce. 8. " The rose looks fair', bat fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker* blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roeea\ Hang on such thorns', and play as wantonly When Bummer's breath their masked... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 546 pages
...doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker -blooms** have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked... | |
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