 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, < Wishing me like to one mure rich in hope, FeaturM like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. SONNET XXX. WH«N to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...enjoy contented least: Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee,—and then my state • • . (Like to the lark at break...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." NOVELTY. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; I love not less, though less the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Drama - 1818 - 552 pages
...that love and am belov'd, Where I may not remove, nor be remov'd." LOVE'S CONSOLATION. ....' " When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." NOVELTY: ': " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; I love not less, though less the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...LOVE'S CONSOLATION. " When in disgrace with fortune and men's ryes, I all alone beweep my out cast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,...That then I scorn to change my state with kings.'' NOVELTY. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; 1 love not less, though lesi the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least : Vet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." NOVELTY. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming , 1 love not less, though less the... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With that I most enjoy contented least : Yet in these thoughts...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings t." What manner of man might that be whose art or scope Shakspeare needed to desire ! But this is a... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...whilst he listens to his musical complaining.) XXIX. " When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, 1 all alone beweep my out-cast state, And trouble deaf...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." This melancholy feeling is indulged again in one or two instances afterwards, on which account we shall... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...whilst he listens to his musical complaining.) XXIX, " When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, 1 all alone beweep my out-cast state, And trouble deaf...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." This melancholy feeling is indulged again in one or two instances afterwards, on which account we shall... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...mane and tail the high wind sings, Fanning the hairs, who wave like feather'd wings. SONNETS. WHEN in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. LET me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one : So shall those blots... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thce, — and then my state (Like to the. lark at break of day...such wealth brings. That then I scorn to change my stale with kingi. 92 SONNETS. XXX. When 1o the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance... | |
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Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns... 
