 Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion...  The Works of William Shakespeare - Page 154by William Shakespeare - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease,2 Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,5 — without be rich no more. So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men ;' And, death once... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...body's end? Then, Soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; 10 Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within...; And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. William Shakespeare. L SONNET. The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action ; and till... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, 5 Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; 10 Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more : — So shalt... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...servant's loss, And let that pine, to aggravate thy store ! By terms divine in selling hours of dross ! Within be fed, without be rich no more ! So shall thou... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worm's, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is...servant's loss, And let that pine, to aggravate thy store ! By terms divme in selling hours of dross ! Within be fed, without be rich no more ! So shalt thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 668 pages
...another of great singularity that makes the close of a Sonnet in this Poet's collection . . . : 'So shall thou feed on death, that feeds on men And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.' [Sonnet cxlvi.]— DELIUS (Jalirbuch, vii, 154): If this passage be taken in connection with the rest... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 654 pages
...so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...of dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: Bo ehalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men, And, death once dead, there 's no more dying then.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 650 pages
...so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; CHAPTER VII. BACON AND CONTEMPORARY PROSE WRITERS. THE writers who flourished during the reigns of... | |
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...reversing typical siege tactics, urging the besieged soul to starve the body in order to banquet itself: Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And...of dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more. (9-12) Outward fasting is inward feasting.6 This moralized anorexia, familiar from medieval mystical... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...the ordinary course of nature is seasonable? Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12, 27 (2nd century) 1 1 So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. William Shakespeare, Sonnet, 146 12 Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that... | |
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