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, William Burto - Drama - 1980 - 154 pages
...jade: Since from thee going he went willful slow, Towards thee I'll run and give him leave to go. Oo am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him...his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not ev'ry hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore arc feasts so solemn and... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 234 pages
...most fully and, from the patron's perspective, suffocatingly elaborated in Sonnet 52, which begins, "So am I as the rich whose blessed key / Can bring.../ For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure." The speaker then likens his audience with the Young Man to "rare" feasts which, though often wished... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1992 - 212 pages
...rich whose blessed \ey, Can bring him to his sweet up-loc\ed treasure, The which he will not ev'ry hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom...pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, 5 Since seldom coming in the long year set, Li\e stones o/ worth they thinly placed are, Or captain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Sonnets, English - 1995 - 182 pages
...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...his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not ev'ry hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. 5 Therefore are feasts so solemn... | |
 | Aldous Huxley - Fiction - 1996 - 432 pages
..."The hunt ball — what an excitement! Because it only happened once a year." She quoted Shakespeare. "Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since...year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are . . . They're a row of pearls nowadays." "And false ones at that," said Lucy. Mrs. Betterton was triumphant.... | |
 | James Schiffer - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 474 pages
...because they reflect the young man's worth, however inadequately: "That which thou hast done " 467 "Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, / Or captain jewels in the carcanet" (52.7-8). The female complainant knows her lover impregnated and abandoned many other women, but she... | |
 | Giampaolo Proni - Fiction - 2000 - 267 pages
...blessed key Can bring him to bis sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not ev'ry hour survey, Por Blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore...Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones ofworth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet. So is the time that keeps you as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 164 pages
...willful willfully 14 go walk (ie, I'll race back without him) 52 So am I as the rich whose blessed key 1 Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The...survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. 4 Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, 5 Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 500 pages
...his celestial face." 195-197.] MALONE (Second Supplement, 1783): So, in our author's 52nd Sonnet: " Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since,...seldom coming in the long year set, Like stones of price they thinly placed are." 198. accidents] COWL (ed. 1914): For accidents in the sense of incidents,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Collections - 2002 - 750 pages
...survey For hluming the fine poim of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, s Since, seldom coming, in the long year set Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain lewels in the carcane1. So is the time that keeps you as my chest, Or as the wardrohe which the rohe... | |
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