 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.  English Sonnets: A Selection - Page 35edited by - 1873 - 238 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Martha Macdonald Lamont - 1854 - 340 pages
...S1ESM I-llIXTEUS, CAMDEN TOWN. THE VILLAGE MILLIONAIRE. CHAPTER I. " Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their...place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forward do contend, Nativity once in the main of light Speeds to maturity." SHAKSPEARE. NATIVITY once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 424 pages
...sure I am, the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. * 7T7ieY—whether. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...main of light,* Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time, that pave, doth now his gift confound.... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...intelligences, and practices, and the manner how they are to be carried on. — Montaigne. CCCCLXIV. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And time that gave, doth now his gift confound. Time... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...intelligences, and practices, and the manner how they are to be carried on. — Montaigne. CCCCLXIV. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And time that gave, doth now his gift confound. Time... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 364 pages
...the same. Oh ! sure I am, the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. LX. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light,2 Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 722 pages
...be the same. O, sure I am, the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. LX. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 336 pages
...same. O ! sure I am. the wits of former days To subjects worse have given aamiring praise. uc. Like us the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our...main * of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight ; And time that gave, doth now his gift confound.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...the same. Oh ! sure I am, the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. LX. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 130 pages
...the same. Oh ! sure I am, the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. xxxv. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore....forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light,2 Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst bis glory light, And... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...cheek the rapture-speaking tear, And clasps with many a sigh his children dear! SONNET. By SHAESPEARE. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, Time doth transfix the flourish set in youth, And... | |
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