| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded, to decay : Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, The time will come and take my love away. This thought...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power : How... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 286 pages
...store ; When I have seen such interchange of State, Or State itself confounded to decay, Ruin bath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose ». * In this beautiful line SHAKESPERE afterward, like HOMER and VIRGIL, borrow'd from himself. CL... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminateThat time will come and take my love away. This thought...sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, ami loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught...sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty bold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught...sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O how shall summer's honey... | |
| Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...hungry ocean gain 5 When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; I0 Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. 1, 2. When I have seen cast down by the hand of Time the memorials of men who have perished in the... | |
| English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TIR'D with all these, for restful death I cry,— As, to behold desert a beggar... | |
| Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. SONNET LXXIII. THAT time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence." 15 — i. 3. 497 The frailty of beauty. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O, how shall summer's honey... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught...choose, But weep to have that which it fears to lose. SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How... | |
| |