 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die ; But if that Bower with base infection meet, The basest weed out-braves his dignity: For sweetest... | |
 | John Clare - Country life - 1820 - 264 pages
...DESCRIPTIVE OF RURAL LIFE AND SCENERY. BY JOHN CLARE, A NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PEASANT. "The Snmmer'i* Flower is to the Summer sweet, " Though to itself it only live and die." Shaktpcure. LONDON: PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY, FLEET STREET ; AND E. DRURY, STAMFORD. 1820. INTRODUCTION.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...the lords and owners of their faces °, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die ; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...quote the 94th Sonnet, if it be only for the sake of two beautiful lines — " The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die." But we must pass on, at once, to the 98th and the 102nd, which we cannot leave behind us. They are... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...quote the 94th Sonnet, if it be only for the sake of two beautiful lines — " The summer' s flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die." But we must pass on, at once, to the 98th and the 102nd, which we cannot leave behind us. They are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...the lords and owners of their faces, • Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed out-braves his dignity; For sweetest things... | |
 | 918 pages
...end into a little nearer contiguity with the means, a considerable benefit, might not be gained. " The summer rose is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die;" but yet the flower docs not bloom the worse, nor diffuse its sileat fragrance less enchantingly to... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...who in a charitable peaceful world must starve. — Buddngliam. Mcxxvm. MCXXIX. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity; For sweetest things... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. — Johnson. MCXXIX. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity; For sweetest things... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...arc the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed out-braves his dignity: For sweetest things... | |
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And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die... 
