 So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long...  The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 68by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 783 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1897
...wonne " or "won." The Camb. ed. gives "wan." Solemnity — stateliness, dignity. Cf. Sa1nt. 52. 5 : " Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since,...thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet." 60. Skipping. Flighty, frivolous. Cf. LL Z. v. 2. 771 : "All wanton as a child, skipping and vain ;"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880
...yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp." 190. But when they seldom come, etc. Cf. Sonn. 52. 5 : "Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since,...thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet." 195. Hopes. Anticipations ; as in Ot/ii 3. 203 : " When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1881
...my jade, Since from thee going he went wilful-slow, Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him...treasure, The which he will not every hour survey For blunting4 the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881
...my jade, Since from thee going he went wilful-slow, Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him...treasure, The which he will not every hour survey 8 Swift extremity is extreme swiftness, or the top of speed. For blunting4 the fine point of seldom... | |
 | Henry Halford Vaughan - 1881
...thee to desist ' For going on death's net, whom none resist.' Act i. sc. i. And again—Sonnet Hi: ' So am I as the rich, whose blessed key ' Can bring...For blunting the fine point of seldom .pleasure.' See too other examples of the same sense in other authors quoted in my note at page 352. So here '... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 288 pages
...conspicuously brought forward into effect by their contrast to the ordinary course of business. • Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since...thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.' But still the objection of Hume remains unimpeached as to the fact that eloquence is a rarer growth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881
...jade, Since from thee going he went wilful-slow, Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go. 52So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him...treasure, The which he will not every hour survey For blunting4 the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 251 pages
...Therefore are feafts fo folemn and fo rare, Since, feldom coming, in the long year fet, Like ftones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels...the carcanet. So is the time that keeps you as my cheft, Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide, To make fome fpecial inftant fpecial bleft, By... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - Literary Collections - 1971 - 1484 pages
...Fear-surprised, overcome by fear: f. eyes, Hml. I, 2, 203. Feast, subst. 1) a festival: therefore are — я so solemn and so rare, since, seldom coming, in the...set, like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Sonn. 52, 5. Wint. IV, 3, 40. IV, 4, 10. 42. 68. 237. John V, 2, 58. R2 I, 3, 92. Н4Л III, 2, 58.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 187 pages
...the written word. Here he is explicitly aware of the equivalence of artist's space and poet's time: Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since,...thinly placed are Or captain jewels in the carcanet." The ornamental circlet in space and the circling years in time are aesthetically equivalent. But a... | |
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