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" Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. "
The Poems of William Shakespeare: Comprehending Venus and Adonis, Tarquin ... - Page 96
by William Shakespeare - 1808 - 204 pages
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The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000

Herbert Blau - Drama - 2002 - 375 pages
...60,11. 5-8: "Nativity, once in the main of light, / Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, / Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, / And Time that gave doth now his gift confound." 19. Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist...
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An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

Michael Dirda - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 340 pages
...following sonnet — not identified as Shakespeare's, though I guessed he was its "onlie begetter": "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore/ So do our minutes hasten to their end. . . ." My kind of poetry. For some reason, that morning I felt especially smart-alecky, even a little...
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Being an Actor, Revised and Expanded Edition

Simon Callow - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 367 pages
...do our MINUTES hasten to their end' - a false apposition and an energy rundown. The moment one says: 'Like as the waves make TOWARDS THE PEBBLED SHORE, So do our minutes HASTEN TO THEIR END', the meaning becomes clear and the poem starts to move. Giving the metaphor its life is the secret of...
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Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, 192 ' So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time...
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Sonetos

William Shakespeare - 2004 - 342 pages
...o nada cambiarán revoluciones. Los ingenios de ayer, estoy seguro, inferiores asuntos ensalzaron. L.IKE as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...place with that which goes before, In sequent toil allforwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main oflight, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,...
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Terence Davies

Wendy Everett - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 260 pages
...then contrasts that ephemerality with the durability of art. Like as the waves make towards the pibled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each...changing place with that which goes before. In sequent toile all forwards do contend. 5 Sonnet 57 is intensely romantic and clearly has very emotional meanings...
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Designing Usable Electronic Text: Ergonomic Aspects Of Human Information Usage

Andrew Dillon - Technology & Engineering - 2004 - 224 pages
...a time. (p. 36) Kline continues, humorously comparing lines from a Shakespeare sonnet (for example, 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end') with lines from such experimental tasks (for example, 'Canaries have wings - true or false?'; 'Canaries...
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A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television

Kenneth S. Rothwell - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 402 pages
...together the flawed film with needle and thread. In voice-over, he recites Shakespeare's sonnet 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore / So do our minutes hasten to their end"). Contrary to what has often been claimed, Godard's alienating images aggressive 1lecoupage, rapid editing,...
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The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems

Diana Brebner - Poetry - 2005 - 194 pages
...read at line five: Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Something visionary happens there in the fifth line. "Nativity" as abstract noun housed in a wavering...
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Inspired English: Raising Test Scores and Writing Effectiveness Through ...

Lorraine LaCroix - Education - 2005 - 161 pages
...cheek. Like as the Waves by William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore. So do minutes hasten to their end: Each changing place with...being crown'd. Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory flight. And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on you And...
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