 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
 | 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... | |
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