| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...for myself I praise, Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents, Than nnswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1807 - 398 pages
...grave should not be dignified by the slightest memorial, falls to the ground. " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments " Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; «• But you shall shine more bright in these contents " Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. Of our fair cousin Dauphin;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1807 - 390 pages
...Sonnet furnishes a strong confirmation of my interpretation of this passage : " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments " Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; " But you shall shine more bright in these contents "Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. Of our fair cousin Dauphin... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...for myself I praise,. Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents. Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...for myself I praise,. Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents* Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time* When wasteful war shall... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...Sonnet furnishes a strong confirmation of my interpretation of this passage : ' Not marble, nor the gilded monuments ' Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; ' But you shall shine more bright in these contents ' Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. ' When wasteful war shall... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Thau unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall... | |
| English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, 62 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall... | |
| English essays - 1835 - 742 pages
...the majestic force, freedom, and harmony of the verse, are beyond all praise. " Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents, [time. Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish When wasteful wars shall... | |
| Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 pages
...youth and beauty shall fade, your truth shall live in my verse. 55. L'ENVOY. " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall... | |
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