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" For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart • Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took, Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble,... "
The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with a selection of engr ... - Page xxxii
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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The minor poems

John Milton - 1890 - 566 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER: \Vho sickened in the time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London by...
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Echoes of Life Or, Beautiful Gems of Poetry and Song: A Choice Collection of ...

Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavoring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...for such a tomb would wish to die. — John Milton. Macaulay. THE dreamy rhymer's measured snore Falls heavy on our ears no more; And by long strides are...
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The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne

Estelle Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1894 - 432 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. •MILTON : On Shahespeare, 1630 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on,...
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From Milton to Tennyson: Masterpieces of English Poetry

Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 488 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. SONNETS. ON HIS HAVING ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTYTHREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,...
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Poets on Poets

Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...Hast built thyself a live-long monument: For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. From II Penseroso. [163z-1638 OR call up him that left half-told Chaucer. Of Camball and of Algarsife,...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 530 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. L'ALLEGRO. [1632-4 ; xt. 24-26.] Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born,...
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The Heart of Oak Books, Volume 5

Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavoring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. Ben Jonson. THIS morning, timely rapt with holy fire, I thought to form...
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The Heart of Oak Books, Book 5

Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895 - 392 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavoring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...conceiving, And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. Ben Jonson. THIS morning, timely rapt with holy fire, I thought to form...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavoring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. ON HIS BLINDNESS WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1896 - 520 pages
...Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. L'ALLEGRO. [1632-4; aet. 24-26.] Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born,...
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