 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1850 - 398 pagine
...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...of youth, Contagious blastments are most imminent. She answers with the same modesty, yet with a kind of involuntary avowal, that his fears are not altogether... | |
 | Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, Leandro Fernández de Moratín - 1850 - 716 pagine
...Virtue itself seapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spríng, Teo ofl before their buttons be disclos'd. And in the morn...of youth , Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then : best safety lies in fear ; Youlh to itself rebels , though none else near. I shall the... | |
 | Nicolás Fernández de Moratín - 1850 - 692 pagine
...scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of tbe spring, Too ofl before their Imttons be disclos'd. And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then : best safety lies in fear; Youlh lo itself rebels, though none else near. Think it no... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 pagine
...in Arc 53 n.), cf. : 'as the most forward bud / Is eaten by the canker ere it blow' (TGV ii 45-6); 'The canker galls the infants of the spring / Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd' (Ham. i. 3. 39-40). See 46 n. below. 46 Taint-worm: 'A worm or crawling larva supposed to taint or... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - 1971 - 782 pagine
...bachelors' buttons?) 2) a knob on a cap: on fortune's cap we are not the very b. Ural. II, 2, 233.. 3) bud: the canker galls the infants of the spring too oft before their —s be disclosed, Hml. I, 3, 40. Button, vb., to fasten with buttons; with up : one whose hard heart... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1980 - 388 pagine
...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 disclosed; 40 And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary... | |
 | Steven Berkoff - 1990 - 228 pagine
...Still not satisfied, Laertes sluices yet more carnal images through the sewer he carries in his brain: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft...of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then . . . He finishes. Ophelia here giggles at the absurd rodomontade of his speech - his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pagine
...prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon.14 Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, 40 And in the morn and l1quid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary... | |
 | Wallace Thurman - 1992 - 316 pagine
...Phylon 35 (March 1974): 64-73. 14. Thurman to Granville Hicks, January 30, 1932. 15. Huggins, 193. The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed. And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. — HAMLET... | |
 | David Rosen - 1993 - 260 pagine
...calumnious strokes" (I.iii.33 - 38). Later he again mixes a genital-war metaphor with a flower-genital one: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft...of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. (I.iii. 39-42.) So the flower of youth must withstand the blastments- shots- diseaseful semen of desire.... | |
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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... 
