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" When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,... "
A Book of English Sonnets - Page 16
1906 - 167 pages
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The history of English literature; with an outline of the origin and growth ...

William Spalding - 1870 - 482 pages
...for their ultimate connexion with our early literature ; Where, in the chronicle of wasted time, We see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty...rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights. The earliest of them, except such as were really nothing mora than devout legends, were founded on...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...without a blot ! All beauty ! — and without a spot. BBM JONSON. WHEN IN THE CHRONICLE OF WASTED TIME. hat whiter skin of hers than snow, Anil smooth as...must die, else she '11 betray more men. Put out the expressed Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our...
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Harry Disney, ed. [really written by] Atholl de Walden, Volume 1

Alexander Charles Ewald - 1871 - 338 pages
...my satisfaction my ideal portrait. The next week I was at Weedoncliffe. CHAPTEE II. THE ORIGINAL. ' When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have exprest E'en such a beauty as you master now.' JEEDONCLIFFE is one of those charming little seaside...
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My Study Windows

James Russell Lowell - Biography & Autobiography - 1871 - 450 pages
...more perfected utterance, represents exactly the feeling with which we read Provengal poetry : — " When in the chronicle of wasted Time I see descriptions...rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now; So all their praises...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1871 - 618 pages
...affords., Fair, kind, and true, have often liv'd alone, Which three, till now, never kept seat in one. CVI. When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights9 Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...without a blot ! All beauty ! — and without a spot. BUN JONSON. WHEN IN THE CHRONICLE OF WASTED TIME. .MEO. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. (Ji'LiKT...what light through yonder window breaks ? It is tile ; Tlu.41, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their...
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The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth ...

William Spalding - English literature - 1872 - 482 pages
...for their intimate connexion with our early literature; Where, in the chronicle of wasted time, We see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty...rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights. The earliest of them, except such as were really nothing more than devout legends, were founded on...
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English Sonnets: A Selection

John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...unbred, — Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead. W : ' It AH 1 364 - 1616. THE FAIREST FAIR. WHEN in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our...
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The Academy, Volume 4

Books - 1873 - 500 pages
...compares some of his chief favourites with the German. For example, the first quatrain of Sonnet 106 : " When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights ;" is rendered thus :-^" Wenn in verschwundner Zeit Erinnerungen Die Anmuth ich beschrieben seh' und...
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Works, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...spirit ? What 's new to speak, what newd to register, That may express my love, or thy dear merit ? • Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, — ] So in " Twelfth Night," Act I. Be. 6,— " Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit,...
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