| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...youth. JOHNSON. To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To...maiden pilgrimage : But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd 6, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.... | |
| Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1821 - 172 pages
...Shakspeare beautifully condenses the whole sentiment. " But earthlier happy is the rose distflTd, " Than that which withering on the virgin thorn " Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." The merit of brevity, however, must in this instance chiefly belong to Lewis Machin, the author of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister ul! your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage : But earthlicr happy is the rose diotill'd, Than that, which withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives,... | |
| Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pages
...hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is Ms discourse." Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost. " Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To...maiden pilgrimage : But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness."... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood To...maiden pilgrimage : But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, with'ring on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...cloister mew 'a, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. r plummet sounded, And with him tfiere lie mudded....one fiend at a time, 111 fight their legions o'er. distill'd, Than that, which, witheringon the virgin thorn, Crows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To...undergo such maiden pilgrimage: But earthlier happy 4 is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in... | |
| George Crabbe - 1823 - 486 pages
...ARABELLA. Thrice blessed they that master so their blood— But earthly happier is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Midtummcr Night't Drcam, Act I. Scene I. I sometimes do excuse the thing I hate, For his advantage... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 436 pages
...cloister mew'd,. To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hvmns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage : But earthlicr happy is the rose distil I'd, Than that, whicn, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...cloister mew'd, To live abarren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To...maiden pilgrimage ; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.... | |
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