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 statues overturn, And broils root out the... The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 280by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
| Axel Stähler - Architecture - 2000 - 584 pages
...monumentalen Repräsentationsarchitektur des Fürsten(-grabes)i: Not marble nor the gilded monumems Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme. But...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. [Shakespeare ed. Kerrigan 1986, Sonnet 55: 1-4]. Der alte poetische Topos... | |
| Roy Eriksen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 224 pages
...wonders of architectural structures and the kind of "room" created in poetry: 1 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. 5 When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
| William Pencak - Social Science - 2002 - 218 pages
...this pow'rful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues...fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even... | |
| George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...despite 68 apparent death within the dimension to which poetry is a sure, if only provisional, approach: When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even... | |
| G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...true of 'pace' in this, one of the greatest sonnets of all, powerful though the context itself be : When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still And room Even... | |
| Lene Østermark-Johansen - Art - 2003 - 182 pages
...this pow'rful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmearched with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues...fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death, and all oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth, your praise shall still find room, Even... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2004 - 342 pages
...hermoso y joven, destilará tu bien cuando te apagues. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Ofprinces, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine...shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work ofmasonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record ofyour memory. 'Gainst... | |
| Oscar Wilde - Fiction - 2004 - 164 pages
...particular play was meant, and that the play was none other but Romeo and Juliet. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful wars shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2004 - 288 pages
...from a German incendiary bomb.54 'When wasteful war shall statues overturn,' Shakespeare had written, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars...war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.55 Heminge and Condell may have borne these lines in mind when they expressed their wish 'only... | |
| Deborah Brown, Annie Finch, Maxine Kumin - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 478 pages
...conquering time derives from Spenser and was common in the Renaissance. Sonnet LV Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of Princes, shall out-live this powerful...shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeer'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
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