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" gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow; And yet... "
Life. Hist. drama. Poems - Page 155
by William Shakespeare - 1887
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...which goes before ; In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light 9, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...glory fight, And time that gave, doth now his gift confound1. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth 2, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the ilourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow ; Feeds on the rarities of nature's...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being croivn'd Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And time...truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Shakspeare. CCCCLXV. Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...that which goes before. In sequent tod all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, And time that gave, doth now his gift confound, Time...beauty's brow; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And nothing stands...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. LXI. Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night ? Dost thou desire...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands bat for his scythe to mow. And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. F 65 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. WHEN I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn...
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Sketches of the Life and Genius of Shakspeare ...

David Paul Brown - 1838 - 86 pages
...forwards do contend. , Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith, being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And time,...stand Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I once gone, to all the world must die, The earth...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...that which goes before , In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Poems. 386 The want of self-knowledge. Defect of manners, want of government, Pride, haughtiness, opinion,...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...19. " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme." San. 54. " with greater beauty and effect, than the melancholy...singing, under a presentiment of her approaching f stand« but for his scythe to mow : And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth,...
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