 Ladies the meaning hereof, which is this : They which honour the Flower, a thing fading with every blast, are such as look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honour the Leaf, which abideth with the root notwithstanding the frosts and winter...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 3411870Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...pleasure ; but they that honour the leaf, which abideth with the root, notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects. Some farther allegory was perhaps implied in this poem. Froissart, and other French... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 496 pages
...pleasure ; but they that honour the Leaf, which abideth with the root, notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects. WHEN that Phoebus his chair of gold so hie Had whirlid up the sterrie sky aloft,... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 470 pages
...pleasure ; but they that honour the Leaf, which abideth with the root notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities without regard of worldly respects. WHEN that Phebus his chair of gold so hie Had whirled up the sterry sky aloft,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...pleasure; hit they that honour the leaf, which abideth with the root, notwithstanding the frosts and the winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects." Some farther allegory was perhaps implied in this poem. Froissart, and other... | |
 | M. O. Stevens - American literature - 1847 - 322 pages
...pleasure. But they that honor the leaf, which abideth with the root, notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects. THE MOURNERS. • BT MRS. NORTON. Low she lies, who blest our eyes Through many... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...pleasure ; but they that honour the leaf, which abideth with the root, notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects." The fame of Chaucer rests, however, chiefly on the returned to London. None of... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...pleasure ] but they that honour the leaf, which abideth with the root, notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects.". The fame of Chaucer rests, however, chiefly on the returned to London. None... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...pleasure ; bur they that honour the leaf, which abideth with the root, notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities without regard of worldly respects." The fame of Chaucer rests, however, chiefly on the great work of his matured... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1857 - 90 pages
...pleasure, but they that honour the Leaf, which abideth with the root notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects. fHEN that Phœbus his chair of gold so hie [aloft, Had whirlid up the sterrie... | |
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