Agli esseri più belli si chiede una progenie

English translation: from fairest creatures we desire increase

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Italian term or phrase:Agli esseri più belli si chiede una progenie
English translation:from fairest creatures we desire increase
Entered by: Umberto Cassano

21:28 Nov 5, 2007
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Italian term or phrase: Agli esseri più belli si chiede una progenie
Does anyone recognize this Shakespearean quote from one of the sonnets?

I need the original English version and can't seem to find it.
hsaxton
Italy
Local time: 15:54
from fairest creatures we desire increase
Explanation:
...That thereby beauty's rose might never die

Si tratta del I sonetto

HTH

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Note added at 18 mins (2007-11-05 21:46:14 GMT)
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory;
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thout that are now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

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Note added at 20 mins (2007-11-05 21:48:16 GMT)
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Sorry ! I forgot to paste the link you may probably need

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/1.html
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Umberto Cassano
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Local time: 15:54
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from fairest creatures we desire increase


Explanation:
...That thereby beauty's rose might never die

Si tratta del I sonetto

HTH

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Note added at 18 mins (2007-11-05 21:46:14 GMT)
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory;
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thout that are now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

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Note added at 20 mins (2007-11-05 21:48:16 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Sorry ! I forgot to paste the link you may probably need

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/1.html

Umberto Cassano
Italy
Local time: 15:54
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Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 48
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Fantastic! Thank you so much!

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