 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 516 pages
...once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, While you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my...(such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes, — e'en iit the mouths of men." And yet this great poet, so conscious of the enduring vitality that... | |
 | Hugh Miller - History - 1865 - 508 pages
...once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, While you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my...(such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes, — e'en in the mouths of men." And yet this great poet, so conscious of the enduring vitality that... | |
 | David McCraw - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 292 pages
...and of his own undying verse, inevitably recalling the last half of sonnet 8 1 : When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my...When all the breathers of this world are dead; You shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. Singing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1992 - 220 pages
...shall lie. Yonr monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet create d shall o'er-read, 10 And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse, When...(such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. LXXXII I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, And therefore mayst without... | |
 | Bob Phillips - Quotations, English - 1993 - 372 pages
...warm next winter by burning our bills. Alas! How deeply painful is all payment! Lord Byron BIOGRAPHY You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes Birds of a feather flock together. The early bird catches the worm. A bird in the hand is worth two... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gende verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read;...such virtue hath my pen Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. 82 I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, And therefore mayst without... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 272 pages
...Keats, like Shakespeare's addressee in Sonnet Eighty-One ('Or I shall live your epitaph to make'), 'still shall live - such virtue hath my pen - / Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men '. 'What a thing ',says Keats, in a letter written on the same day (to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...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, 10 Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
..."Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this pow'rful rhyme" (sonnet 55); "Your monument shall be my gentle verse, / Which eyes...rehearse / When all the breathers of this world are dead" (sonnet 81); "And thou in this shall find thy monument, / When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are... | |
 | Nehgs, New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - Reference - 2016 - 614 pages
...his pen. He hated to make himself a " motley to the view" and to sell " cheap what was most dear." " Your monument shall be my gentle verse Which eyes not yet created shall o'er read," he writes in a sonnet, secure of his future fame ; and then, in the very next : — " Oh... | |
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Your name from hence immortal life shall have, 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... 
