...he perceives the envious clouds are bent " To dim his glory." Again, in our author's i8th Sonnet: " Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, " And often is his gold complexion dimm'd." In the first a6t of this play, the quarto, 1611, reads — •" 'Tis not my inky cloke could smother"...

...Confounds thy fame, as whirlwind, jhatt fair tuJi." MALONI. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven mines*, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ; And every fair from fair fometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing courfe, untrimm'd * j But thy eternal fummer (hall...

...buds of May, And fummer's leafe hath all too fhort a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven fnines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ; And every fair from fair fometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing courfe, untrimm'd ; But thy eternal fummer mall...

...Satinet. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ; And every fair...

...he perceives the envious clouds are bent " To dim his glory." Again, in our author's 18th Sonnet: " Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, " And often is his gold complexion dimm'd." I suspect that the words As stars are a corruption, and have no doubt that either a line preceding...

...he perceives the envious clouds arc hent " To dim his glory." Again, in our author's 18th Sonnet: " Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, " And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.'' I suspect that the words As stars are a corruption, and have :10 Jouht that either a line preceding...

...XVIII. SHALL I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou an more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short n date : Sometime too hot the eye of Heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'cl ; And...

...winds do shake the darling buds of May, And sumraei's base hsth all too short * date. VOL. XXIV, 4 D Sometimes too hot the eye of Heaven shines, And often...gold complexion dimm'd ; And every Fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd. . But thy eternal summer shall...

...unaccountable both in feeling and scholarship — which scholars have put upon them ;) he asks — " Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely...May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date." and at the close exclaims with proud but unselfish consciousness — " But thy eternal summer shall...

...lives thy executor to be.* In the eighteenth, we find the following exquisite couplet : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. The thirty-fifth sonnet breathes the air of Gray's Inn still more perceptibly : Thy adverse parly is...