...her treasure: Her audit, though delay 'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee. 127 In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame: For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...Therefore the image of walking would be more apt than for a modern pianist. 1 3 happy - blessed and joyful. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame: 5 For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...becomes an indictment of a gender politics that does not discriminate between "dark" and "light" females. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name. But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame; For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...clearly addresses to his other love and which seem to belong to the same period as Sonnets 33 to 42: In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name Therefore, my mistress' brows are raven black, Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem . . . 'My...

...so poetic and moving they put tears in her eyes. One read: In the old age, black was not considered fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty 's successive heir. And beauty slandered with a bastard shame. When the wagon train stopped...

...not seek to go beyond its own narcissistic self-enclosure. When Shakespeare states in sonnet 127 that "In the old age black was not counted fair, / Or if...bore not beauty's name, / But now is black beauty's successive heir," he is attacking not only the past metaphorics of color but also his own culture and...

...la obra. Rosaline parece a veces estar en una obra equivocada, puesto que su actitud ante Birón 27. In the old age black was not counted fair, / Or if...bore not beauty's name; / But now is black beauty's successive heir, / And beauty slandered with a bastard shame: / For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...to ' the Dark Lady,' the two most often cited passages are the following : — Sonnet cxxvii : — ' In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slander- d with a bastard shame ; For since each hand hath put on nature's...

...keep her treasure. Her audit, though delayed, answered must be, And her quietus is to render thee. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...bore not beauty's name. But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame; For since each hand hath put in nature's...

...represent the vogue in the 1590s for dark-haired women or brunettes, possibly due to Continental influence: "In the old age black was not counted fair, / Or if...bore not beauty's name; / But now is black beauty's successive heir."82 Ingram and Redpath note, for example, "that at least until late in the Elizabethan...