 | Douglas Morrey - Performing Arts - 2005 - 294 pages
...recitation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 by Woody Allen and Peter Sellars in the epilogue underlines it: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore So...goes before In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nouvelle Vague picks up this imagery of the wave, beginning with its title. Here, too, water is the... | |
 | Duan Feng, Guojun Jin - Science - 2005 - 612 pages
...Press, Cambridge (1998). This page intentionally left blank Part II Wave Behavior in Various Structures Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore So...place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forward to contend. - William Shakespeare Waves always behave in a similar way, whether they are longitudinal... | |
 | John S. Friedman - History - 2005 - 964 pages
...knows what foul words they might be making. Or poetry, I suppose. Maybe the policeman was signalling, 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.' I doubted it, though; that sort of thing was more common with policemen in the north of England. The... | |
 | Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey - Fiction - 1931 - 352 pages
...passage of time, and the arc of human life in Shakespeare's Sonnet 60. Here is the octave of this sonnet: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And time that gave doth now his gift confound. or... | |
 | Shakespeare, William - Sonnets, English - 2006 - 366 pages
...the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. f ® 1 33 Sonnets • Sonnet 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 706 pages
...only in expectation (though with wordplay on "stand ... in hope") 138 Shakespeare's Sonnets 139 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...goes before; In sequent toil all forwards do contend. 4 Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses... | |
 | Christopher R. Miller - Art - 2006 - 12 pages
...Shakespeare's sonnets on mutability had been conflated into a lyric occasion, the metaphorical become literal: "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end" (Sonnet 60); "When sometime lofty towers I see down razed" (Sonnet 64); "In me thou seest the twilight... | |
 | George Herbert - Literary Collections - 2007 - 47 pages
...than they know; they go to a final, not a temporary, rest'. 11. Compare Shakespeare, Sonnets Ix 1—2: 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end.' 12. bound for death : Travelling towards death, as though on board the traditional ship of death; also,... | |
 | Peter Jensen - Fiction - 2009 - 238 pages
...Sonnet #60). #60 contains 134 in lines 7 and 8 a worried idea about the eclipse of the solar hero, "Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound." But this is more dangerous than the eclipse of the Moon. Darkness in daytime is much more dangerous... | |
 | James Howard Kunstler - Fiction - 2009 - 336 pages
..."Gladys," Seth said. " — may her troubled spirit come into your love and dwell in your house forever. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, /So do our minutes hasten to their end. Amen." "Amen," all around. We mounted our horses. "You know what I think?" Brother Minor said. "What?"... | |
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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. 
