“Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.”
Origine: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1588-1589.
Thomas Nashe, o Nash , è stato un poeta, scrittore e drammaturgo inglese, autore di satire e pamphlet, vissuto in età elisabettiana.
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“Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.”
Origine: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1588-1589.
Origine: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 161-164.
Origine: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1590-1594.
“Blest is that government where no art thrives.”
Origine: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1425.
“From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.”
Origine: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1878.