When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin... Notes and Queries - Page 1151889Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 pages
...buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage : When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...store : When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down razed, And hrass eternal slave to mortal rage : When 1 have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom...store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased , And brass eternal , slave to mortal rage : When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...store : When I have seen such interchange of state , Or state itself confounded to decay, Ituin haih taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come... | |
| Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...his familiarity with the accidents of a crumbling coast : — When I have seen the hungry ocean Rain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm...pleonasm in contrast to " firm soil," which justifies the parallel phrase " liquid surge " as having a like reference. The very metaphor of the earth which sea... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore. And the firm soil win of the wat'ry mam. Increasing store with loss, and loss with store . When I have seen such interehange of state. Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate —... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore. And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Inereasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interehange of state. Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate —... | |
| Electronic journals - 1889 - 562 pages
...The tea "sa thief, whose liquid surge resolves The earth into salt tears : the earth 'sa thief. _In Sonnet Ixiv. the poet evinces his familiarity with...pleonasm in contrast to " firm soil," which justifies the parallel phrase " liquid surge " as having a like reference. The very metaphor of the earth which sea... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 482 pages
...seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pages
...seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1852 - 548 pages
...age ; AVhen sometime lofty towers I see down rased, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; AVhen I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the...store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That Time will come... | |
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