...explained by that disregard of fame which is so peculiar a feature in hi> character. AV. H SONNETS. i. FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,* That thereby...eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial f Making a famine where abundance lies, lf uel, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou...

...: — SONNET 1. " From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby btmly'i rote miylil nerer rs it again when God || doth please : He is wit's pedler ; and retails his wares At : " SONNET 4. " Then how, when nature calls thee to be gone What acceptable audit canst thou leaver...

...Stellen aus den ersten 17 Sonetten und Venus and Adouis: From fairest ereatures we desire inerease, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as...time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory. Sonn. l. By law of nature thou art bound to breed, That thine may live when thou thyself art dead....

...ersteren spielt Sonett 20 an (A man in hew, all Hews in his controlling), auf den zweiten Sonett 2 (From fairest creatures we desire increase. That thereby beauty's Rose might never die] und eine ganze Anzahl anderer Gedichte, die fortwährend von Farbe, Duft, Dornen und Krankheiten (canker)...

...PROMISED BY OUR EVER-LIVING POET, WISHETH THE WELL-WISHING ADVENTURER IN SETTING FORTH, TT SONNETS. FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby...contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flamo with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet...

...EVER-LIVING POET, WISHETH THE WELL-WISHING ADVENTURER IN SETTING FORTH, TT1 TT] ie Thomas Thorpe. SONNETS. FROM fairest creatures we desire increase. That thereby...memory : But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feecl'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself...

...seems to me that the first sonnet opens with an allusion to the early death of the earl's father:— From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby...never die, But as the riper should by time decease, Hia tender l1eir might bear his memory ! In sonnet 10 he is charged with not inclining his ear to the...

...Beauty's Rose : " From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby Beauty's Rose might ne^er die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory. In this Sonnet the poet addresses the Spirit of Beauty, or the Beautiful, as the fountain of art ;...

...imperfect observations, we present the continuous poem which appears in the first nineteen Sonnets : — From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby...flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine whore abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh...

...puts into the two opening lines of his sonnets, to be as it were the text and motto of the whole— " From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die." The simplest and lowest form of this impulse manifests itself in the " vulgar love ; " it is purified...