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
| Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept Stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues...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 - 1876 - 492 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse(28) distills your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masoury, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...137; Act III., sc. 2, 16-17, & c * IMMORTALITY IN THE POET'S VERSE. (SONNET LV.) Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, 5 And broils root out the work... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1878 - 380 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live 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 - 1878 - 408 pages
...* canker-blooms] ie the blossoms of the canker, — ihe wild, or dog-rose. IT. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall bum The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth ;... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. Хот 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 works... | |
| George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 278 pages
...thought lowly of himself ? Is it in the fifty-fifth sonnet ? which opens, — " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time ; " or in the eighty-first ? which ends, — " Your monument shall be... | |
| George Henry Calvert - 1879 - 230 pages
...benefactor knew how great he was, how prized to be. Here is one of the two : " 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 - Songs, English - 1879 - 274 pages
...do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : EXEGI MONUMENTUM "^T OT 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 - 1879 - 494 pages
...fifty-fifth sonnet : Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful Thyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents...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... | |
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