 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
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 656 pages
...recalls another of great singularity that makes the close of a Sonnet in this Poet's collection . . . : 'So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.' [Sonnet cxlvi.] — DELITJS (Jahrbuch, vii, 154): If this passage be taken in connection with the rest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? s 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; n Within be fed, without be rich no more: 12 So shalt... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - Spiritual life - 2001 - 390 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...men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. — William Shakespeare I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...the elemental sonnets, 44, 45, and 74; pp. 46, 89), and the one is said to grow as the other wanes: Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And...men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. (146) Time ('hours') is sold in exchange for the 'terms divine,' but 'fed* preserves contact with the... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...to the point: 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...dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there 's no more dying then. (Sonnet... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 260 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...dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: So shah thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. The lady... | |
 | James Ishmael Ford - Buddhism - 2002 - 132 pages
...Death and freedom. Freedom and death. Shakespeare speaks eloquently of how we are free within death: "So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men. And death once dead, there's no more dying then." Finally, the third wato:"When you are free of birth and death, you know where to go. When your four... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...couplet that would seem at home among John Donne's Holy Sonnets; addressing his soul, the poet writes: So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men, And death once dead, there's no more dying then. TO. THE. ONLIE. BE GETTER. OF. THESE . IN SV ING. SONNETS. M'.WH ALL.HAPPINESSE. AND.THAT.ETERNITIE.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 342 pages
...cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors ofthis excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?...aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours ofdross; Within befed, without be rich no more: So shalt thoufeed on Death, thatfeeds on men, And Death... | |
 | Laurie Brown - Fiction - 2004 - 356 pages
...sterling performances." "You're not dying, are you?" "Hell, boy. We're all dying from the day we're born. 'So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.' Sonnet one hundred forty-six." "I would have guessed Shakespeare even though I'm not familiar with... | |
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