 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 pàgines
...addressed to a brunette, — called a ' black beauty ' in Shakespeare's day, — and commences thus : " In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bare not beauty's name." This is an allusion to the remarkable fact, that during the chivalric ages... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 564 pàgines
...addressed to a brunette, — called a ' black beauty ' in Shakespeare's day, — and commences thus : " Iu the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bare not beauty's name." This is an allusion to the remarkable fact, that during the chivalric ages... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 pàgines
...her treasure : Her audit, though delayed, answered must be ; And her quietus is to render thee.* 127 In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 364 pàgines
...' Seconds : ' inferior or secondary persona are not mixed up with his tribute of affection. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 424 pàgines
...treasure : Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 336 pàgines
...treasure : Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be ; And her quietus is to render thee. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pàgines
...treasure : Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee '. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name ; i — and wretched MINUTES kill.] Mynuit in the original edition, as the word is generally there... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 130 pàgines
...— yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound ; I grant I never saw a goddess go, — In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander Jd with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1897 - 876 pàgines
...certainly he did not succeed in imposing it upon his own generation. ' In the old age,' he tells us, ' black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name. But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame,' and he pays a prettily turned compliment... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 546 pàgines
...treasure : Her audit, though delay'd, answered must be, And her quietus, is to render thee. CXZVII. In the old age black was not counted fair,* Or if...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame. For since each hand hath put on nature's... | |
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In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And Beauty... 
