...garden was his own, and that he could bend over every flower when it pleased him — " The summer rose is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die." How pleasing it is to contemplate Richardson, during his tedious apprenticeship of seven years at a...

...! XCIV. They that have power to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others , are themselves as stone , Unmoved,...flower with base infection meet , The basest weed outhraves his dignity; For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds : Lilies that fester smell far...

...! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live." Again; " The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though...with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves its dignity." And again ; " How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in...

...addressed : — They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved,...summer sweet. Though to itself it only live and die ; Hut, if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outhraves his dignity: For sweetest...

...in which the poet upbraids his friend with his licentiousness, the 94th, we have these lines : — " The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die ; Hut if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity : For sweetest...

...exaggeration of unselfishness. How often, in years past, have I reckoned it as but one grace the more. " The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die." For so must I be content to view it. And yet, alas ! and again, alas ! In re-arranging this house,...

...! XCIV. They that have power to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved,...sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if fhat flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity J For sweetest things turn...

...not swear upon a bed of death — Reflect — your Maker now may stop your breath. Anon. SWEETNESS. THE summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live or die; But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity; For sweetest...

...the largest hearts bend downward, Cireling all the human raee. Whittier. Praed. itr$. Hale. CHASTITY. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though...it only live and die ; But if that flower with base infeetion meet, The basest weed outhraves his dignity ; For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds...

...best. " They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved,...their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence." — Sonnet 94. If Goethe attained this character, however, it was not because, as it is the fashion...