 The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious...  Notes and Queries - Page 1831877Full view - About this book
 | William Toone - English language - 1834 - 498 pages
...Either for chartel or for warrant. HuniBRAS. CHARY (S. cearig), wary, cautious, careful. The churteat maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon. HAMLBT. Yet I am chary too who comes about me. BBACMONT AND FLKTCHIII'I i BROTHER. CHAST (F. chastier),... | |
 | Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...must not despise the merest punctilios, which, like many things that seem empty, have their use : — The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon. SHAKSPEARE. L 2 Thus the very shadow of an impropriety must be regarded even as though it were substantial.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...sister ; And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest3 maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon. Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes ; The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...sister ; And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest4 maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in art - 1837 - 400 pages
...more ! she replies with a kind of half consciousness — No more but so ? LAERTES. Think it no more. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon — Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes ; The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft... | |
 | 1837 - 648 pages
...What admirable lessons of female delicacy, for example, he inculcates, when in one place, he says, 'The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon :' And in another : ' She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...suits, Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, The better to beguile. 36 — i. 4. 642 The same. The chariest™ maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, 1 They... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...suits, Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, The better to beguile. 36— i. 4. 642 The same. The chariest} maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, * They... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 530 pages
...sister ; And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest3 maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon. Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes ; The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...my dear sister ; And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft... | |
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