 | Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 Seiten
...it so. It is not of necessity that we grow ugly as well as old." Donne says No spring, nor summer's beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face ; he was probably speaking of his wife, for Donne was happy in his marriage, as he deserved to be.... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1872 - 370 Seiten
...a stout old tower," I have a strong tendency to lift my hat, whether I know the person or not. "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in an autumnal face." It was a fortunate hour for me when kind-hearted John Kenyon said, as I was leaving... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...scribbling fry Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. YOUNG. AUTUMN. No spring or summer's beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face. JOHN DONNE. When bounteous Autumn rears his head, He joys to pull the ripen'd pear. DRYDEN. Autumnal... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 Seiten
...scribbling fry Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. YOUNG. AUTUMN. No spring or summer's beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face. JOHN DONNE. When bounteous Autumn rears his head, He joys to pull the ripen'd pear. DRVDEN. Autumnal... | |
 | William Webb Follett Synge - 1879 - 348 Seiten
...mortelles blessures De voir qu'avec le vice on garde des mesures. Le Misanthrope. No spring nor summer's beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. DONNE. THE young men were left alone. Singleton's first notion was to spare Graham the pain of speaking... | |
 | John Skelton - 1879 - 932 Seiten
...leave comparing thus, She and comparisons are odious. ELEGY IX. THE AUTUMNAL. No Spring, nor Summer's beauty hath such grace. As I have seen in one autumnal face. Young beauties force our loves,* and that 'sa rape ; This doth but counsel, yet you cannot 'scape.... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 Seiten
...little tract of delicacy there. Drayton, Polyolbion, song i. AN OLD LADY'S FACE. No spring, nor summer's beauty, hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. Call not those wrinkles graves : if graves they were, They were Love's graves ; or else he is no where.... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1880 - 336 Seiten
...Danvers. Under the name of the "Autumnal Beauty," Donne thus writes of her." " No spring nor summer's beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face. Were her first years the golden age ? that's true, But now she's gold oft tried, and ever new ; That... | |
 | 1881 - 918 Seiten
...kind of beauty to which Donne refers when, in his ninth elegy, he declares — No spring nor summer's beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face. The phenomenon is indeed far from rare. In masculine as in feminine physiognomy, a softening and beautifying... | |
 | Francis George Heath - 1885 - 398 Seiten
...degree — of prosateurs. It is true, as one writer feelingly exclaims, that 'Not Spring or Summer's beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face,' and it is worth an effort to endeavour to catch and stereotype, so to speak, some of the most prominent... | |
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No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. 
