 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 336 pagina’s
...treasure : Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be ; And her quietus is to render thee. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...put on nature's power. Fairing the foul with art's false-borrow'd face. Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy hour. But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pagina’s
...treasure : Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee '. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name ; i — and wretched MINUTES kill.] Mynuit in the original edition, as the word is generally there... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 130 pagina’s
...— yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound ; I grant I never saw a goddess go, — In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander Jd with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's power, Fairing the foul... | |
 | ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 496 pagina’s
...former place substituted "yonfair," and in the latter " the/ace." To FAIR. To make fair, or beautiful. For since each hand hath put on nature's power, Fairing...borrow'd face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy hour. FAIRY-CIRCLES. Certain green circles, frequently visible on short grass, and supposed to have... | |
 | Robert Nares - 1859 - 502 pagina’s
...To FAIR. To make fair, or beautiful. For since each hand hath put on nature's power Fairing the fnul with art's false borrow'd face ' Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy hour. FAIRY-CIRCLES. Certain green circles, frequently visible on short grass, and supposed to have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1897 - 876 pagina’s
...certainly he did not succeed in imposing it upon his own generation. ' In the old age,' he tells us, ' black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore...now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame,' and he pays a prettily turned compliment to the unfashionable dark... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 546 pagina’s
...treasure : Her audit, though delay'd, answered must be, And her quietus, is to render thee. CXZVII. In the old age black was not counted fair,* Or if...nature's power, Fairing the foul with art's false borrowed face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy hour, But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 868 pagina’s
...quietus ° is to render thee. crxviL In the old age black was not counted fair,4 Or if it were, it bort- h false-borrow'd face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower, But is profan 'd, if not lives in disgrace.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1864 - 630 pagina’s
...In the 127th Sonnet we read this singular defence of a lady's dark complexion and dark eyes : — ' In the old age black was not counted fair, Or, if...now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame ; For since each kand hath put on nature's power, Fairing the foul with... | |
 | 1864 - 606 pagina’s
...it were, it bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame ; For since each hand hath put...nature's power, Fairing the foul with art's false borrowed face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower, But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace... | |
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In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty... 
