Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the... The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 284by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
| Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 pages
...youth and beauty shall fade, your truth shall live in my verse. 55. L'ENVOY. " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars's sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death, and... | |
| David Paul Brown - 1838 - 86 pages
...brightest imaginings of future glory. — How else are these .passages to be construed. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of Princes, shall outlive this powerful...you shall shine more bright in these contents, Than unwept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1842 - 338 pages
...truth. 1 PJent*. * :. e. tne blossoms of the canker-rose, or ciog-rose. SONNETS. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth ; your praise shall still find room, Even... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 594 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
| Fashion - 1842 - 414 pages
...He fairly speaks out a lofty self-estimate, none the less true for its candor : Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful...you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unwept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 596 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, • — and FOISON of the year ;] " Foison " is plenty. See Vol. vii. p. 165. In this instance it is... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 606 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, 4 — and POISON of the year ;] " Foison " is plenty. See Vol. vii. p. 165. In this instance it is... | |
| Martingale - Country life - 1843 - 314 pages
...says—rather, however, extending the " exegi monumentum are perennius" of Horace : "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
| James White - 1843 - 310 pages
...says—rather, however, extending the " exegi monumentum, are perennius 1 ' of Horace : " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besinear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
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