 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read ; of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his...treasure ; Now counting best to be with you alone, Th LXXXII. I grant thou wert not married to my muse, And therefore may'st without attaint o'erlook The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 492 pages
...monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'cr-read ;(4S) And tongues to bo your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers...breath most breathes — even in the mouths of men. LXXXII. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook The... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - Computers - 1915 - 790 pages
...eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When...Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. An unprejudiced mind, acquainted with the character and life of the Stratford actor, and the social... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 1142 pages
...eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read ; And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse, When...shall live (such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes—even in the heart of men. G-EORGE SOMES LAYARD. A VILLA IN A VINEYARD. THIS early morning'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 172 pages
...eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'errcad, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all...dead. You still shall live— such virtue hath my penWhere breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. -*(82>1 grant thou wert not married to my... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - Art - 1984 - 252 pages
...whose lives he fixed forever in the form of words. In the concluding lines of Sonnet 81 he boasts: When all the breathers of this world are dead; You...Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. The Musical Memorial nous. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries produced the most famous of the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When...such virtue hath my pen, Where breath most breathes, e'en in the mouth of men. SONNET 81st.3 I have taken the first that occurred; but Shakspeare's readiness... | |
 | Jane Hedley - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 222 pages
...generations of readers: Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When...virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, ev'n in the mouths of men. (Sonnet 81) The Elizabethan poet who most consistently and often cites monumentalizing... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. Horace (65-8 BC) Latin poet You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen) Where...breath most breathes, — even in the mouths of men. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet See AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Guardian on Dr. JOHNSON... | |
 | Giancarlo Maiorino - Art - 1990 - 230 pages
...Shakespeare was confident that his pen would shelter the ever-growing mortality of the vernacular: When all the breathers of this world are dead You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen (Sonnet 81) Destiny itself unraveled as a graphic line, which is "drawne by night, and the various... | |
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Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall... 
