 | 1852 - 596 pages
...friend, must be luxuriant with natural beauty, and rich in both classic and modern suggestions : — " O Proserpina For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Diss'-8 waggon ! daffodils, That come before the twallow darei, and take The winds of March with beauty... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 928 pages
...and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing : — O Proserpina ! i s, poverty hath distracted her. But for these foolish...John, sir John, I am well acquainted with your mann j But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, ! Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried... | |
 | 1853 - 618 pages
...again : But that 's all one ;" and the passage of Perditas cited before about the daffodils :— " that take The winds of March with Beauty ; violets dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ;" and said that these were conclusive. We have not, however, ourselves at any time heard young ladies... | |
 | 1853 - 682 pages
...gardens and the woods we brought in our aprous ' DAFFODILS, That come before the swallow dures, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of JUNO'S eyes, Or CÏTHKBBA'B breath : ' -172 A Reminiscence. [August, fragile anemones and bashful... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1853 - 164 pages
...then said, to abide upon it, I thinke that my husband will neuer mend," &c. Sig. T 4. Act iv. sc. 3. " O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon .'" (*. e. Dis's chariot.) So Barnaby Barnes in his Divils Charter, 1607 (which in all probability... | |
 | 1853 - 820 pages
...that, frighted, thOu let'at fall From Dis's waggon : datiodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, But sweeter than the li<ls of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 802 pages
...remember Proserpine, and say : — Ah ! Proserpina, For the flowers now which, frighted, thou lett'st fall From Dis's waggon ;* daffodils That come before...take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, Eut sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytheres's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried,... | |
 | A. C. Harwood - 1964 - 68 pages
...the sheep-shearing feast holding the flowers of middle summer, but calling for the flowers of spring. 'O Proserpina! For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 pages
...reminded of the daily and seasonal cycle. In late summer Perdita evokes the flowers of the spring. O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggonl daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets,... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...for spring flowers to compliment a young lord: "daffodils, / That come before the swallow dares, and take / The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,...sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes / Or Cytherea's [Venus's] breath" (I V.iv. 11 8-22). 9.656 (202:15). Whom do you suspect? - The punch line of a well-known... | |
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O Proserpina ! For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath... 
