WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?... The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 484by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 522 pages
...following lines : What needs my Shakspearefor his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under...astonishment, . Hast built thyself a live-long monument, &c. &c. We see by these testimonies, and by many others which it would be easy to collect, that the... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...following lines : What needs my Shakspearefor his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under...fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thon, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument, &c. &c. We see by... | |
| Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...should be hid Under a satr-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need's! thou such weak witness of thy name! Thou in our wonder...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 of thy unvalued... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...CCCLXXV. ''"' What needs my Shakspeare for his honoure' . \mne» The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under...built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring all, The easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves... | |
| 1829 - 440 pages
...labor of an ago in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid, Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name i Thou in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument ; — and, at a later... | |
| 1829 - 434 pages
...hallow'd reliquea should be hid, Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of famo, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name :' Thou in our wonder and astonishment, Hast bnilt thyself a live-long monument ; — and, at a later period, after a new era in English literature... | |
| Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...the rest. " Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame, What need'st thou a dull witness of thy name 1 Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument." Gentlemen, I shall make no apology for detaining you so long. I will rather apologise that I say no... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...SHAKESPEARE.* WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under...pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, 5 What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...JOHN MILTON. What needs my Shakspeare for bis honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ; Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid 1 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name t Thou, in... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...needs my Shakspeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hullow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, 5 What need'st thou such weak wituess of thy name! Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built... | |
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