 | Patrizia Bettella - 2005 - 273 ページ
...the Dark Lady (sonnet 127) by stating the change in the concept of female beauty from fair to black: In the old age black was not counted fair, or if it...beauty's name, but now is black beauty's successive heir (96) 2b Although Shakespeare's example provides the great literary theme for a new tradition of baroque... | |
 | Siegfried Wyler - 2006 - 220 ページ
...the US society. Long before this, Shakespeare had done the same in one of his sonnets, Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...each hand hath put on nature's power, Fairing the soul with art's false borrow'd face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower, But is profaned, if... | |
 | Daniel Juan Gil - 2006 - 206 ページ
...are gradually commuted into a melancholy that opens the door to alternative forms of relationship: In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame: For since each hand hath put on nature's power, Fairing the foul with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2011 - 706 ページ
...beauty; with . . . esteem: ie, by deeming it artificial (continued) 272 Shakespeare's Sonnets 273 127 In the old age, black was not counted fair, Or, if...now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame. 4 For since each hand hath put on nature's power, Fairing the foul... | |
 | Shakespeare, William - 2006 - 366 ページ
...quietus is to render thee. й Я ftê &§P H ft=t î"J aft ' ít f± Д Ш— Mit Sonnets Sonnet 127 In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame: For since each hand hath put on nature's power, Fairing the foul with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 297 ページ
...her treasure: Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be, And her quietus is to render thee. CXXVII. In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...borrow'd face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy hour, But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace. Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black, Her eyes... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - 2007
...first of the dark lady poems, signals a direct and intentional violation of literary convention. 12.8 In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it...now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame: For since each hand hath put on Nature's power, Fairing the foul with... | |
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In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, 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 power, Fairing the foul with art's false... 
