...passage from Shakspeare, even though it should appear trite; which illustrates the emblematical meaning often conveyed in these floral tributes ; and at the same time possesses that magic of language VOL. i. u and appositeness of imagery for which he stands pre-eminent. With fairest flowers, Whilst...

...his grave a bed ; With female fairies will his tomb be haunted, And worms will not come to thee. Are. With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shall not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy...

...thy GRAVE, WHILE SUMMER DAYS DO LAST.] So, in Cymbeline : " —— — with fairest Jlavoers, " While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, ' I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shall not lack ' The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor ' The azur'd hare-bell, like thy...

...Shakspeare, even though it should appear trite ; which illustrates the emblematical meaning VOL. i. u often conveyed in these floral tributes ; and at the...live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou skill not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured harebell like thy veins...

...scattered throughout the productions of our early poets. Thus Shakespeare's Arvigarus in Cymbeline : With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : ***** Yea, and furr'd moss, besides, when flowers arc none, To winter-ground thy corse. The Hainanese...

...passage from Shakspeare, even though it should appear trite; which illustrates the emblematical meaning often conveyed in these floral tributes ; and at the...pre-eminent. With fairest flowers, ' Whilst summer lasts, and 1 live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave; thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face,...

...ambitious sought a match of birth, Whose veins bound richer blood than lady Blanch ? O dear Phebe, With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live...sweeten thy sad grave : Thou shalt not lack The flower, that 's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf...

...just claim to the epithet poetical. They have stamped immortality on the Hyacinth of modern times. -" With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thoushalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy...

...Barnes. It still exists in some parts of this island. Shakspeare alludes to it in Cymbeline, A. iv. S. v. with fairest flowers, " Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, " I'll sweeten thy sad grave." Whence Collins, with remarkable taste and pathos ; " TO fair Fidele's grassy tomb, " Soft maids, and...

...grave. Weed, in old language, meant garment. 4 So in Cymbeline : — ' - with fairest flmvers While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave.' The old copy reads, ' Shall as a carpet hang,' &c. the emendation is by Steevens. 5 Thus the earliest...