| Zachariah Jackson - 1819 - 504 pages
...pranks in her ; ie has adorned, by setting it in her most lovely person. SCENE IV.— page 313. VIOLA. she pin'd in thought; And, with a green and yellow...melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. cile the incongruity of — patience sitting on a monument smiling at grief: and yet, the... | |
| Daniel Jaudon - Art and science - 1820 - 236 pages
...Bard, in quest of poetical decoration. She never told her love; But let concealment, like a worm V th' bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought}...melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Shakesp. Q. What is a Metaphor?* A. A Metaphor is the putting of the name of one thing for... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 412 pages
...very prettily repeated those lines: She never told h«r love; But let concealment, like a worm i* th' bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought;...melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Now, chevalier, if you had any design in your pointing to these very pretty lines, I will... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...makes this happy comparison : " She never told her love, But let concealmant, like a worm in the hud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pin'd in thought, And...melancholy, She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.*" 277. Emhellishing comparisons, — those with which we are chiefly concerned at present,'... | |
| David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...leaves on 111* bltst ?— Ossi««. She never told her lov*, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought;...melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at Grief. Slukipeari. Yet . ,,.Ytt sadly it i*«ui»g, that sue hi shades, Mildly as mourning doves,... | |
| James Hogg - 1821 - 356 pages
...told her love ; But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek ; — she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief." Our social glee and cheerfulness were now completely clouded ; we sat down to our meals,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...never told her love. Bat let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : She pined in thought) And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love, indeed 1 We men may say more, swear more : but, indeed, Our shows are... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...woman, I should your lordship. Duke. And what's her history? But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought...melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love, indeed? We men may say more, swear more : but, indeed, Our shows are more... | |
| English essays - 1822 - 714 pages
...comma, and the addition of a parenthesis, give full force and beauty to the whole figure. I read, " She pin'd in thought, And, with a green and yellow...melancholy She sat, (like patience on a monument) Smiling at grief." 3. LEAR. "The unten ted woundings of a father's curse Pierce every sense about thee !" One... | |
| Decoration and ornament - 1825
...never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i'thc bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at Grief—." My remarks have hitherto been confined to Shakspeare's tragedies; but it is fair to retort... | |
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