 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 1100 pages
...Ay, good brother, or go about to think. Enter AUTOLVCUS, singing. Lawn as white as driven snow ; aao fur faces and for noses ; Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume' for a lady's chamber; Golden quoifs... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pages
...a cyprus, not a bosom, hides my heart ; " and in the "Winter's Tale," Act iv., sc. 3, we find — " ster of fence," — three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes Cyprus, or crape, was made in both black and white. 74. ¿My part of death) no one so true did share... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 108 pages
...lawn, Milton means thin fabric. In Shakspeare's Winter's Tale, iv. 3, we have Autolycus singing of Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. B. Jonson, in his 73rd Epigram, speaks of a picture One half drawn In solemn Cyprus, th'other cobweb... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 544 pages
...'em than you'd think, sister. Per. Ay, good brother, or go about to think. Enter AuTOLYCtrs, singing. Lawn as white as driven snow , Cyprus black as e'er was crow ; Gloves as sweet as damask-roses ; Masks for faces and for noses ; Bugle-bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume for a lady's... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...away, death, and in sad cypress let me be laid: compare Autolycus' song, Winter's Tale, Aft iv. sc. 4: lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Milton speaks of 'sable stole of cypres-\avm,' // Pens. v. 35, but lawn is here used of the material... | |
 | Richard Stephen Charnock - English language - 1866 - 374 pages
...from Kunpie, Venus. CYPRUS. A celebrated wine brought from Cyprus. A thin transparent black stuff. Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Shalt. W.'s Tale. A cyprus, not a bosom, Hides my poor heart ! Shak. CYRILLA. A handsome plant, of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 642 pages
...opposed to " cobweb-lawn ;" in the 'Winter's Tale,' Act III., Sc. 4. Autolycus has, among his wares, " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow." And in Milton's ' II Penseroso ' we have " With sable stole of Cyprus lawn." In Act II., Sc. 4, of... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572 - 1868 - 340 pages
...boy with a skin of almost Moorish dye—and great was the display at once made on the tables, of " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus, black as e'er was crow ; Gloves as sweet as fragrant posies, Masks for faces and for noses ;" and there was a good deal of the eager, desultory... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 pages
...boy with a skin of almost Moorish dye — and great was the display at once made on the tables, of " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus, black as e'er was crow ; Gloves as sweet .as fragrant posies, Masks for faces and for noses ; " and there was a good deal of the eager, desultory... | |
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