 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1848 - 426 pages
...pyramid 1 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name t Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument ; And so sepulcred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. The reader... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1896 - 664 pages
...dominating personality is enshrined. Thus the tribute runs :— For whilst to the shame of flow-endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book Those Delphic linee with deep impression took, Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble... | |
 | Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...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? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a life-long monument. For whilst, to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow; and that... | |
 | Robert Graves - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 212 pages
...Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a starry pointing pyramid? . . . What need's! thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder...astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument .... The Milton poem, over, Diane Cilento bowed to the applauding audience with pleasing grace. "Who's... | |
 | Robert Graves - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 212 pages
...should be hid What need's! triou such weak witness of thy name? Under a starry pointing pyramid? . . . Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument.... The Milton poem, over, Diane Cilento bowed to the applauding audience with pleasing grace. "Who's that?"... | |
 | Margaret Bridges - Combination (Linguistics) - 1990 - 244 pages
...noble tomb in a place like Westminster Abbey, it is his astonished admirers that are turned to stone: For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavouring art Thy...each heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book 1 The most recent discussion is the new biography by David Riggs, who suggests the Malvolio of Twelfth... | |
 | David Richman - Comic, The - 1990 - 212 pages
...twenty-two-year-old Milton, writing verses for a new impression of the Folio in 1630, amplifies Jonson's theme: "Thou in our wonder and astonishment / Hast built thyself a livelong monument. "1= What chiefly moves wonder in these poets is the verse. Yet in drawing upon rhetoricians, literary... | |
 | James Shapiro - English drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needs't thou such dull witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a lasting monument. For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou NS The Brown Girl 45 "I am as brown as brown can be, And my eyes a Has built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavoring art, Thy easy numbers... | |
 | Judith Dundas - Art - 1993 - 310 pages
...and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong Monument, For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavoring art. Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalu'd Book Those Delphic lines with deep impression took. Then thou our fancy of itself bereaving.... | |
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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... 
