| Roger Kuin - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 316 pages
...remind you. From fairest creatures we desire increase, that thereby beauty's rose might never die ... But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st...self-substantial fuel, making a famine where abundance lies. Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose un-eared womb disdains... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, j Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, 6 Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy...fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, 10 Within thine own bud buriest thy content 1 1 And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding. 12 Pity... | |
| Robert Samuels - Psychology - 2001 - 210 pages
...this dialectical opposition between the illumination of the other and the darkness of the subject: "But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, /...self-substantial fuel, / Making a famine where abundance lies" (1). One could paraphrase these lines as saying that the fair young man hordes all light and energy... | |
| Nikki Moustaki - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 376 pages
...rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel ... Linked rhymes occur when the last word or syllable in a line rhymes with the first word or syllable... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 768 pages
...time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, 5 Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only... | |
| Steve Alten - Fiction - 2003 - 516 pages
...ROSE MIGHT NEVER DIE. BUT AS THE RIPER SHOULD BY TIME DECREASE, HIS TENDER HEIR MIGHT BEAR HIS MEMORY. BUT THOU CONTRACTED TO THINE OWN BRIGHT EYES— "...self-substantial fuel, making a famine where abundance lies. Sorceress, what do these words mean to you?" THE INFORMATION NECESSARY FOR ACCURATE RESPONSE IS NOT... | |
| Jim Ellis, James Richard Ellis - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 316 pages
...young man is urged to overcome his narcissism and marry: 'From fairest creatures we desire increase ... But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, / Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel' (1.1, 5—6). Venus similarly warns Adonis not to bury his talents: 'Foul cank'ring rust the hidden... | |
| Bruce Cook - Fiction - 2004 - 428 pages
...Rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st...Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buricst... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2004 - 342 pages
...Making afamine where abundance lies, Thyselfthyfoe, to thy sweet selftoo cruel. Thou that art nou> the world's fresh ornament And only herald to the...thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the... | |
| John Russell Brown - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 264 pages
...for another more obviously commercial word : But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed's! thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, . , . There is, of course, a quibble on 'contracted', for besides alluding to a business contract,... | |
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