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" Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Phoebus... "
The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal - Page 245
1840
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Hamel, the Obeah man

Hamel (fict.name.) - 1827 - 678 pages
...made sacred to them, and to them alone. CHAPTER XX. Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. MERCHANT or VENtCE. IT would require the hand of a Raphael to paint the passions expressed on the features...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...; PORTIA, NERISSA, and other of her Attendants. Mor. Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Pheebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles, And let...
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Studies from the English Poets

George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...; PORTIA, NERISSA, and other of her Attendants. Mor. Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles, And let...
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 166, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...Train; PORTIA, NERISSA, and other of her Attendants. Mor. Mialike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles, ind let...
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Drafts for acceptance, Volume 478

esq. George Raymond - 1856 - 294 pages
...perceived just over my shoulder as though he would have said, 'Mislike me not for my complexion !' The fact was, these good inmates would not and could...time I should be quitting the happy valley, and make my best courtesies for the rich boon extended to me, I re-ascended the garden steps. To my still-growing...
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Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Volume 1

Ethnology - 1861 - 396 pages
...the Merchant of Venice, in the following words : — " Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour and nigh bred : Bring the fairest creature northward born, \Vhere Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,...
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Ten Years' Wanderings Among the Ethiopians: With Sketches of the Manners and ...

Thomas Joseph Hutchinson - Africa, West - 1861 - 374 pages
...heiress in the play of the " Merchant of Venice" : — " Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour, and nigh bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Phoebus' fires scarce thaw the icicles,...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 225

Early English newspapers - 1868 - 964 pages
...certain unlucky letter, which might well have run — " Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. Bring me the greatest creature northward bom, Where Phcebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles, And let...
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Hayti

Sir Spenser St. John - Haiti - 1884 - 390 pages
...were almost perfect, and she might well have said — " Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. To whom I am a neighbour and ni^h bred." She was not misliked, but she apparently stood the test of every temptation that her white...
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The Classical Review, Volume 9

Classical literature - 1895 - 522 pages
...blackamoor as a solar symbol, and for quoting appropriately ' Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbour and near bred,' Mr. Wroth wisely leaves the type unexplained. The occurrence of the human eye and negro -on the same...
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