 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
 | James McCosh - 1887 - 292 pages
...into the shade and hide ourselves from the public gaze ; like Viola, " Who never told her love; But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek." Shame is a modification of the same feeling in which we shrink from exposing our person, or it may... | |
 | Arthur Cummings - 1889 - 360 pages
...lucklessly pledged to one. Poor Cornelia ! she never confessed her tale of blighted hopes to any one ; but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek ; she pined in thought, but meekness was not hers ; soon anger grew to be her nourishment, and as the... | |
 | 1889 - 836 pages
...neighbors. Thus in the familiar description of a hopeless love, Viola says : " She never told her love, but let concealment like a worm in the bud feed on her damask cheek." Here we have a delicate picture of a flower perishing from the concealed worm eating into its heart.... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...Would overset the brain, or break the heart. Wordsworth. CONCEALMENT OP. 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,... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1891 - 332 pages
...wrinkled Care derides, and Laughter holding both his sides. 123. He was a willow, not an oak. 124. She let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. 125. The busy fingers toiled on. 126. It is a city of spires. 127. I did some excellent things indifferently,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1893 - 176 pages
...same thought in the celebrated passage in Twelfth Night, ii. 4, 113 — " She never told her lovej But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek." 146. as willingly give cure, as know, I should be as anxious to cure the evil as to learn what it is.... | |
 | John Daniel Barry - 1899 - 138 pages
...such feeling and charm the lines beginning : — " A blank, my lord. She never told her love ; But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, Feed on her damask cheek." Unlike another American actress who undertook to play the part of Viola at about this time, Miss Marlowe... | |
 | Edith Nesbit - 1900 - 88 pages
...what is her history?" he asked. "A blank, my lord," Viola answered. " 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,... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...Well said : that was laid on with a trowel. — Shakespeare. CONCEALMENT 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,... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 pages
...Well said : that was laid on with a trowel. — Shakespeare. CONCEALMENT 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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