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" 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... "
Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is prefixed ... - Page 53
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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Love, Poetry, and Immortality: Luminous Insights of the World's Great Thinkers

William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall bum 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth: your praise shall still...wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgement. . . [day when you] arise You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. Sonnet 55 In my final...
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Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship

Ilona Bell - History - 1998 - 298 pages
...his mistress's wit. Eternizing poems like Shakespeare's proclaim the poet's power to conquer time: "Gainst death and all oblivious enmity / Shall you...praise shall still find room / Even in the eyes of all posterity."46 Carpe diem poems like Herrick's "Gather ye rosebuds" summon poetic authority to urge...
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The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...stames overmm, And broils root out me work of masonty, 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 forih; your pciise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out...
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Nineteenth-century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook

Chris White - History - 1999 - 396 pages
...living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-ohlivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your poise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity...wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgement that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.' It was extremely suggestive...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare

Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity 3 Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wears this world out to the ending doom. 4 So till the judgment that yourself arise, s You live in...
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Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems

A. B. Taylor - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 240 pages
...the poet had started with Golding's ending — Nor Mars his sword, nor warres quick fire shall burne The living record of your memory. Gainst death, and...oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth, your praise shall stil finde roome, Even in the eyes of all posterity That weare this world out to the ending doome....
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The Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 9 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity 10 Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity 12 That wear this world out to the ending doom. 13 So, till the judgment that yourself arise, 14 You...
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The Building in the Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton

Roy Eriksen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 224 pages
...time. 5 When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn: The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death, and all-oblivious enmity 10 Shall you pace forth, your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of...
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The Complete Sonnets and Poems

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 768 pages
...'Gatnst death, and all oblivious enmity Shall you pare forih, your pratse shall still lind room, i0 Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the ludgemem that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. t monumems] MAiONL; monumem...
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Shakespeare and Religion: Essays of Forty Years

G. Wilson Knight - Christian drama, English - 2002 - 396 pages
...the open', in Romeo and Juliet (HI. iii. i). In Sonnet 55 we have: 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity . . . The editors of the First Folio wished that Shakespeare were alive to 'set forth* — Thorpe's...
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