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" Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the... "
Life. Hist. drama. Poems - Page 152
by William Shakespeare - 1887
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Pericles. The two noble kinsmen. Venus and ...

William Shakespeare - 1876 - 492 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse(28) distills your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masoury, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distills your truth. LV. Not marble, not the a structure of majestic frame. Which from the . [time. Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And...
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Chambers's national reading-books, Book 6

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...137; Act III., sc. 2, 16-17, & c * IMMORTALITY IN THE POET'S VERSE. (SONNET LV.) Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, 5 And broils root out the work...
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The plays and poems of William Shakespeare, ed. by J.P. Collier, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1878 - 380 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth : your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all...
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The Poems

William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pages
...* canker-blooms] ie the blossoms of the canker, — ihe wild, or dog-rose. IT. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall bum The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth ;...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. Хот marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the works...
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Wordsworth: A Biographic Ęsthetic Study

George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 278 pages
...thought lowly of himself ? Is it in the fifty-fifth sonnet ? which opens, — " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time ; " or in the eighty-first ? which ends, — " Your monument shall be...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...be conquered by the begetting of children, or still more by the power of poetry: Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful...shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. (Sonnet 55) Some express faith in the beloved's constancy - 'you like...
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The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English

Johan Elsness - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 456 pages
...3-11-014686-X NE: GT © Copyright 1997 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., D-10785 Berlin For Turid Noi marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, be smear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work...
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Love, Poetry, and Immortality: Luminous Insights of the World's Great Thinkers

William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...says: until the day of judgment). (276) Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall out live this powerful rhyme. But you shall shine more bright...masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall bum 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth: your praise shall still find room...
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