 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
 | 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 836 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Poets, English - 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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Dramatists, English - 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... | |
 | Johan Elsness - English language - 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... | |
 | 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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