 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1879 - 844 pages
...thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. LXV Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? 0 fearful meditation ! where, alack ! Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid ? Or what... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...And by their verdict is determined The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part. — Ibid., 46. How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? — -Ibid., 65. But be contented: when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away. —... | |
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 pages
...that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. (Sonnet 55.) LOVE'S MIRACLE. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays 1 O, fearful meditation ! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...mask'd him from me now. Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth ; TIME AND LOVE. (Sonnet Lxv.) Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea. But...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? s O, how shall summer's honey-breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 146 pages
...danger), etc. See also note on II. iii. 80. 168. Impregnable, resisting all attack. Cf. Sonnet Ixv. 7 : * When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays.' HnmonrM. According to the strict grammar, humour'd must agree with Death, the nominative to conies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 360 pages
...thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rooks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays ? O fearful meditation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 362 pages
...to have that which it fears to lose. LXV. I Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, 1 But sad mortality o'ersways their power, 'How with...Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rosks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays ? 0 fearful meditation... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...Feeds on the rarities of nature's truih, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Sh. Son. 60. O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out .Against...stout. Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? Sh. Son. 65-. Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...noiseless foot of time, Steals, ere we can effect them. ¿. All's Well That Ends Well. Act V. Sc. 3. "Tis О fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 770 pages
...thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays 1 O fearful meditation ! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what... | |
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Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? 
