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" Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there... "
New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British poets and ... - Page 315
by New elegant extracts - 1823
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Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley

William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 508 pages
...neither fair nor faithful, yet I can praise her with as much zeal and fury as the best of you — " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more...
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Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley

William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 506 pages
...neither fair nor faithful, yet I can praise her with as much zeal and fury as the best of you— " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...clere, — I will no more speake of this matere. CHAUCER. COMMON SENSE. SECOND THOUGHT. MY mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask' d red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more...
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Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley

William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 518 pages
...her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more delight, Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...the world well knows ; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. cxxx. My 6 is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, —...
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Shakespeare : Select Plays: As You Like it

William Shakespeare - 1883 - 218 pages
...uniform. Ib. mingled damask, or red and white, like the colour of Damask roses. Compare Sonnet cxxx. 5 : ' I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks." 124. In parcels, piecemeal, in detail. 124, 125. would have gone near To fall, &c., would have nearly...
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Persons

Richard Jefferies - 1877 - 306 pages
...handwriting, and he knew the greater part of it by heart. He had just read the sonnet beginning — My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red. ***** And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare, when the sound...
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As You Like it

William Shakespeare - 1877 - 244 pages
...lb. mingled damask, or red and white, like the colour of Damask roses. Compare Sonnet cxxx. 5 : ' 1 have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.' 1 24. ln parcels, piecemeal, in detail. 124, 125. would have gone near To fall, &c., would have nearly...
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World's end, Volume 2

Richard Jefferies - 1877 - 292 pages
...handwriting, and he knew the greater part of it by heart. He had just read the sonnet beginning — My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red. ***** And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare, when the sound...
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The Poems

William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pages
...the world well knows ; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. cxxx. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, —...
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