 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 152by William Shakespeare - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Dennis Klass - Family & Relationships - 1999 - 252 pages
...solace-filled bond with their children. Shakespeare again reminds us how this works. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. . . . So, til the judgement that yourself arise. You live in this, and... | |
 | Franck Lessay - English drama - 1999 - 204 pages
...l'exprime à plusieurs reprises dans ses sonnets, notamment dans le Sonnet 55 : 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. 53. Michael Neill suggère qu'à l'époque de Shakespeare c'était la... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...this powerful rime; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. ' When wasteful war shall statues...broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his 2 sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious... | |
 | Axel Stähler - Architecture - 2000 - 584 pages
...monumentalen Repräsentationsarchitektur des Fürsten(-grabes)i: Not marble nor the gilded monumems Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme. But...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. [Shakespeare ed. Kerrigan 1986, Sonnet 55: 1-4]. Der alte poetische Topos... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2000 - 254 pages
...is the defiant sentiment: Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this pow'rful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents...Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. (Sonnet 55) The humanistic verses of Omar Khayyam are considered worse than irreverent — they are... | |
 | Roy Eriksen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 224 pages
...wonders of architectural structures and the kind of "room" created in poetry: 1 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. 5 When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | William Pencak - Social Science - 2002 - 218 pages
...this pow'rful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues...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... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...despite 68 apparent death within the dimension to which poetry is a sure, if only provisional, approach: When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...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... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...true of 'pace' in this, one of the greatest sonnets of all, powerful though the context itself be : When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still And room Even in the eyes of all... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...the def1ant sentiment : Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this pow'rful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents...Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. (Sonnet 55) The humanistic verses of Omar Khayyam are considered worse than irreverent - they arc termed... | |
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