 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1913 - 360 pages
...he was himself of all their ingenious graces, stung Shakespeare likewise to these honest words: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dim; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd red and white, But... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - Child rearing - 1914 - 402 pages
...put himself so successfully in Shakespear's? Imagine her reading the hundred and thirtieth sonnet! My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wire, black wires grow on her head; I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 1914 - 388 pages
...put himself so successfully in Shakespear's? Imagine her reading the hundred and thirtieth sonnet! My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wire, black wires grow on her head; I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...conventional exaggerated comparisons made in love poems. SONNET CXXX (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616) My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grown on her head. I have seen roses damasked,1 red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks;... | |
 | 50 pages
...possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof- and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream; All this...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. She allows the book to drop open onto her lap My father was not like any ordinary father. I never thought... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...one awakes 1. 12 does not simply replicate the sense of 11. 5 and 11) 14 To shun how to shun 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; 4 If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. 5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But... | |
 | Richard Stengel - Social Science - 2002 - 326 pages
...courtly flattery and in doing so created one of the greatest love poems ever written, Sonnet 130. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Rob Pope - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 448 pages
...hands 5. 1.2 a WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 'My mistress' eyes' (Sonnet 130), written c. 1594-9, pub. 1609 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 600 pages
...heaven itself for ornament doth use') and, more memorably, in the burlesque blazon of Sonnet 13n: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grows on her head. Both poems poke fun at the conventional Petrarchan comparisons, still found in Spenser's... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; 26 A bliss in proof, and, prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream. All this...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. By this we may place a stanza from Cbilde Harold: 'Tis an old lesson — Time approves it true, And... | |
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Coral is far more red than her lips' red : If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask' d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes is there... 
