 So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 2881829Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 558 pages
...many dictionaries of quotations, but cannot find the author. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,...thinly placed are. Or captain jewels in the carcanet. RICHARD HAHGREAVES. [Shakespeare, Sonnet LII.] (2) Where does the following stanza occur ? — But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 484 pages
...survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,1 Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain2 jewels in the carcanet.3 1 There is a somewhat similar thought in Henry IV. Part 1. : •—... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 pages
...survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, 1 Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain 2 jewels in the carcanet. 3 1 There is a somewhat similar thought in Henry IV. Part I.: — " My state,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pages
...survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,1 Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain2 jewels in the carcanet.3 1 There is a somewhat similar thought in Henry IV. Part I. : . —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 548 pages
...hour survey, For* blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts t so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like...worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.X So is the time that keeps you, as my chest, Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 546 pages
...hour survey, For* blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feastst so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like...worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.J So is the time that keeps you, as my chest, Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...fine point of seldom pleasure. » Eiuconce— fortify. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare a, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain b jewels in the carcanet c. So is the time that keeps you, as my chest, Or as the wardrobe which the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 370 pages
...effect by their contrast to the ordinary course of business. ' Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like...carcanet. ' * But still the objection of Hume remains nnimpeached as to the fact, that eloquence is a rarer growth of modern than of ancient civil polity,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 484 pages
...hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure, Therefore, are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set* Like...thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet. So is the time that keeps you as my chest, Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide, To make some... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 pages
...survey, For* blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,t Since seldom coming, in the long year set : Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain J jewels in the carcanet.§ So is the time that keeps you, as my chest, Or as the wardrobe which the... | |
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