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" SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarelets of Pearl. "
Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ... - Page 253
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 356 pages
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...The day's disasters in his morning face. t. GOLDSMITH — The Deserted l-tllage. L. 199. Some asked ؁ 0 1 u. HERRICK — The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls. PACE. FACE. 196 Her face betokened all...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1, Part 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1897 - 268 pages
...morning, a bee.1 Herrick and Suckling 1 " Some asked me where the Babies grew, And nothing I did say ; Bat with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how Pearls did grow, and when ; Then spake I to my pile. To part her lips, and shew me there The qnarelets of Pearl One ask'd...
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The Hesperides and Noble Numbers, Volume 1

Robert Herrick - 1898 - 386 pages
...private play: Name it I would; but, being blushing red, 75. THE ROCK OF RUBIES, AND THE QUARRY OF PEARLS. SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I...where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarrelets of Pearl. 76. CONFORMITY. CONFORMITY was ever known A foe to dissolution:...
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The Woman Beautiful

Helen Follett Jameson - Beauty, Personal - 1899 - 208 pages
...the eyebrows without injury. Cocoanut oil makes an excellent tonic to increase the growth. THE TEETH "Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and shew me there The quarrelets of pearl." — Herrick. Femininity may be heir to many beauty woes, but ugly...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 192

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1900 - 612 pages
...no otherwise,' we cry when we read : — ' Some asked me where the rubies grew ; And nothing did I say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some asked how pearls did grow, and where ? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew them there...
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The English Poets, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 532 pages
...Corinna! come, let's go a Maying. THE ROCK OF RUBIES. Some ask'd me where the Rubies grew: And nothing 1 did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how Pearls did grow, and where I Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and shew me there CANDLEMAS EVE. Down with the rosemary...
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The English Poets, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 522 pages
...time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna ! come, let's go a Maying. THE ROCK OF RUBIES. Some ask'd me where the Rubies grew; And nothing I did say, But with my fin jer pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how Pearls did grow, and where I Then spoke I to my...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 442 pages
...the Quarry of Pearls. Some ask'd me where the rubies grew 5 And nothing I did say; But with my ringer pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls...love and poetry. His poems, from their number and si2e, are ' like the motes that play in the sun's beams ; ' that glitter to the eye of fancy, but leave...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 438 pages
...me where the rubies grew ; And nothing I did say , But with my finger pointed to The lips of Juha. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke...there The quarrelets of pearl.' Now this is making a petrefacdon both of love and poetry. His poems, from their number and size, are ' like the motes that...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 444 pages
...lapidary instead of a poet. One of his pieces is entitled ' The Rock oj Rubiet, and the S^uarry of Pearls. Some ask'd me where the rubies grew ; And nothing...did say ; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Jul1a. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew...
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