 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...not her own. ALEXANDER POPE. THE PEDDLER'S PACK. FROM "THE WINTER'S TALE." Enter ACTOLYCUS, singing. LAWN as white as driven snow ; Cyprus black as e'er...as sweet as damask roses ; Masks for faces and for iioses ; Bugle bracelet, necklace-amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber : Golden quoifs and stomachers,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...two females in the old garden-house yonder — but how to address them? Stay — Will Shakspere, be my friend in need ! I will give them a taste of Autolycus." He then sang, with a good voice and becoming audacity, the popular playhouse ditty — " Lawn as white as driven... | |
 | Abram Smythe Palmer - English language - 1882 - 700 pages
...Mysteries, Juditium (15th cent.). A C'v/jn/s not a bosom Hides my poor heart. Twelfth Night, iii. 1. Lawn, as white as driven snow, Cyprus, black as e'er was crow. Winter's Tale, it. 3. About her head a Cyprus heau'n slie wore, Spread like a veile, vpheld with siluer... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 188 pages
...death," etc. 120. Cyfrfss. "Cipresse" in the folio. See on ii. 4. 52 above. Cf. WT iv. 4. 220 : '" Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow;** and Milton, // Pens. 35 : " And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn." Halliwell... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 1018 pages
...females in the old garden-house yonder — but how to address them 1 — Stay — Will Shakspeare, be my friend in need. I will give them a taste of Autolycus."...black as e'er was crow, Gloves as sweet as damask rosea. Masks for faces and for noses." "What hath fortune sent us here for an unwonted sight. Janet... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Great Britain - 1883 - 422 pages
...females in the old garden-house yonder — but how to address them ? — Stay — Will Shakspeare, be my friend in need! I will give them a taste of Autolycus.'...ditty,— " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black a3 e'er was crow, ' Gloves as sweet as damask roses, Masks for faces and for noses.' ' What hath fortune... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 544 pages
...females in the old gardenhouse yonder — but how to address them ? — Stay — Will Shakspeare, be my friend in need ! I will give them a taste of Autolycus."...audacity, the popular play-house ditty,— " Lawn aa white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow, Gloves as sweet as damask roses, Masks for... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1884 - 580 pages
...the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year." 1 See " Winter's Tale," iv. 4 : " Lawn as white as driven snow ; Cyprus black as e'er was crow." Its transparency is alluded to in " Twelfth Night," iii. i : " a Cyprus, not a bosom, Hides my heart."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 368 pages
...ii. 2. 9 above. 120. Cypress. "Cipresse" in the folio. See on ii. 4. 52 above. Cf. WT iv. 4. 220 : " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow;" and Milton, // Pens. 35 : " And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn." Halliwell... | |
 | John Milton - 1884 - 72 pages
...England dates from the third year of Elizabeth. Cf. Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv. 4, 220 — • " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. " 36 Decent. 'Comely,' 'beautiful.' Cf. Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 12— " The decent church that... | |
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