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" she never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief. "
Thaddeus of Warsaw. Revised - Page 243
by Jane Porter - 1831
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A Treatise on the Passions and Affections of the Mind ..., Volume 1

Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 428 pages
...concealment, even from the bosom of a friend; like Viola in Shakespear, Who never told her love : But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. This disposition may proceed from some peculiar delicacy in the cause of grief, — from that indolence,...
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A Philosophical Treatise on the Passions

Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 420 pages
...concealment, even from the bosom of a friend; like Viola in Shakespear, Who never told her love : But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. This disposition may proceed from some peculiar delicacy in the cause of grief,—from that indolence,...
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The Brothers; Or, The Castle of Niolo: A Romance

Robert Huish - 1820 - 848 pages
...she were really in love, at the time of which I afn now speaking — -Sh* never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek . Adeline, took little delight in the amusements which Zuricl) presented to her : she longed to return...
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The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume 1

Euripides - 1823 - 480 pages
...to love by the impulse of Venus, yet sensible to honour, shame, and virtue, never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek ; who, having dropped an unguarded expression which she thought disclosed too much, was ashamed of...
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The Common School Manual: A Regular and Connected Course of Elementary ...

Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 pages
...though all impressions are instantly made, they are as instantly lost." "She never told her grief, But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pin'd in thought. And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument,...
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The Log Book; Or, Nautical Miscellany..

Old Sailor - 1826 - 534 pages
...livery about Admiral Calmady's red nose. CONSTANCY; Or, the Fate of Eleanor. She never told her love But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. SHAKSPFAFIE. It was on the close of a fine day in July, that I walked out to enjoy an evening ramble....
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The Doctor, &c. ...

Robert Southey - 1834 - 394 pages
...There may be readers who, though they can understand why a lady instead of telling her love, should let concealment like a worm in the bud Feed on her damask cheek, • SPENSER. will think it absurd to believe that any man should fix his affections as Daniel did upon...
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A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles ...

Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 pages
...Describing the effects of concealed love, he makes this happy comparison : " She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like patience on a monument,...
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 12

Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...fancy. So in Shakspeare's beautiful description of concealed love — " She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek." That the worm feeds on the bud, is a fact in nature, that concealed love feeds on the cheek, is a fact...
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Progressive Exercises in English Grammar, Part I: Containing The Principles ...

Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - 1841 - 290 pages
...idleness. You should not desire says an ancient Greek author even the thread of another man's needle. She let concealment like a worm in the bud feed on her damask cheek. The sciences in general open and enlarge the mind. Nature has wisely determined that man shall want...
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