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" I'm told, is beauty's throne, Where every lady's passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. "Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose, whose pale shades... "
Bride of Lammermoor - Peveril of the peak - Page 212
by Walter Scott - 1833
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Famous Fugitive Poems

Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 pages
...that shame tin' sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. "Then, Earl, why didst thou leave tin' I'",U Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose,...beauty passing rare. " But, Leicester, (or I much am wrong,) Or 't is not beauty lures thy vows; Rather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee forget thy humble...
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Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations, Issue 6

1909 - 636 pages
...Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, •...thought my beauty passing rare. " But, Leicester, ah ! I much am wrong, Or 'tis not beauty lures thy vows, Rather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee...
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The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 pages
...flowers that shame the sun Are not so glowing, not so fair. ' Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the bed Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose, whose pale shade Must sicken when those gauds are by f ' 'Mong rural beauties I was one — Among the fields wild...
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Voice, Speech and Gesture: A Practical Handbook to the Elocutionary Art ...

Robert D. Blackman - 1912 - 1230 pages
...eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, To...have won, And thought my beauty passing rare. "But, Lester, ah ! I much am wrong. Or 'tis not beauty lures thy vows, Bather ambition's gilded crown Makes...
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Kenilworth

Walter Scott - 1923 - 716 pages
...That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. 'Then, earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, To...beauty passing rare. 'But, Leicester (or I much am wrong), Or 't is not beauty lures thy vows; Rather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee forget thy humble...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...glowing, not soe fayre. ' Then, earle, why didst thou leave the bedds , ' Where roses and where lillys vie, ' To seek a primrose, whose pale shades ' Must sicken — when those gaudes are bye? ' 'Mong rural beauties I was one, ' Among the fields wild flow'rs are faire ; . ' Some...
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Kenilworth

Sir Walter Scott - 2001 - 366 pages
...Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. ' Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, To...thought my beauty passing rare. ' But, Leicester, (or J much am wrong,) Or 'tis not beauty lures thy vows ; Rather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee forget...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 21

Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 446 pages
...Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, To...'Mong rural beauties I was one ; Among the fields wild-flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my passing beauty rare. "...
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