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" For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart • Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took, Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble,... "
The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with a selection of engr ... - Page xxxii
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1880 - 654 pages
...monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart 10 Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book Those Delphic...lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, Who sickened in the time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London by...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Reprinted from the Best Editions, with ...

John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst to the shame of flow-endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. XI. ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, WHO SICKENED IN THE TIME OF HIS VACANCY, BEING FORBID TO GO TO LONDON,...
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Kottabos: College Miscellany, Volume 3

College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1881 - 364 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst/to the shame of slow endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow; and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. MILTON. 133 Cabellarhts. §N! alte cinctus, concretus grandine crinem, Crura ocreasque luto aspersus,...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 1

David Masson - English literature - 1881 - 878 pages
...built thyself a livelong monument ; For, whilst to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy mimbcrs flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves of...lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Those lines were probably written on the blank leaf of a copy of the Folio Shakespeare of 1623, the...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a life of the author by A. Chalmers ...

John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart 10 Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book Those Delphic...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. OX THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, lies old Ilobson ; Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas, hath laid...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life

John Milton - Fore-edge painting - 1881 - 528 pages
...monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heaTt Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those...dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to dio. ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, \Vho sickened in the time of hits Vacancy ; beiny forbid to yo to London,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1881 - 528 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves...conceiving ; And, so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, Who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 2

Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. L'ALLEGRO. [1632-4; Kt. 24-26.] Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born,...
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The Sonnets of John Milton

John Milton - English poetry - 1883 - 244 pages
...astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. ON SHAKSPEARE. THESE lines have been sometimes cited as Milton's Sonnet to Shakspeare. But Milton,...
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The advanced grammar of school-grammars

C. Duxbury - English language - 1884 - 278 pages
...Hast built thyself a life-long monument ; For whilst to th' shame of slow endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...for such a tomb would wish to die.— John Milton. Give reasons or rules for the use of the capital letters in the following : — / On the morning of...
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