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 243by Jane Porter - 1831Full view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| |