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" Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and ... - Page 368
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pages
...sight, And by and by clean starved lor a look.—(75) For Slander's mark was ever yet the fair.—(70) Thou art thy Mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.—(3) Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, Even so my...
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Shakespeare's Poems: Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, Etc

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 432 pages
...tillage of thy husbandry ? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity ? Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shall see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if...
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Tragedy of Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 192 pages
...That is, gold restores her to all the freshness and sweetness of youth " (Toilet). Cf. Sana. 3. 10 : " Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime." 44. Do thy right nature. " Lie in the earth where nature laid thee " (Johnson). Quif£=\\v\ng ; that...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Sonnets, English - 1890 - 356 pages
...certainly beautiful ; and it is probable enough that this beauty would be inherited by her son : — " Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime." It should also be noticed that, with regard to Philip, William Herbert's brother, Clarendon speaks...
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Sonnets

William Shakespeare - 1891 - 200 pages
.../£. I' Or who is he so jond will be the tomb A^f. .,« . (. . Of his self-love, to stop posterity ? Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime; So thou through windows of thine age shah see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if thou...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 26

Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1891 - 498 pages
...addressed his sonnets to her elder son, William [qv], doubtless refers to her in the lines (sonnet iii.) : Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. Thomas Nashe, in his preface to the 1591 edition of Sidney's ' Astrophel,' wrote that ' artes do adore...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - 1893 - 200 pages
...tillage of thy husbandry ? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity ? Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime; So thou through windows of thine age shall see. Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if thou...
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The Poems of Shakespeare: With a Memoir

William Shakespeare - 1894 - 392 pages
...tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond,8 will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity ? Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime : So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if...
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Shakespeare in His Context: The Constellated Globe

Muriel Clara Bradbrook - Drama - 1989 - 238 pages
...hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy (8.1-2.) or or Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime (3.9-10) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate (18.1-2.)...
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For My Daughter

R. Freedman - Reference - 1992 - 98 pages
...of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began. S IGNE HAMMER TTiou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She was a beautiful baby. She blew shining bubbles of sound. She loved motion,...
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