 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower...  Life. Hist. drama. Poems - Page 157by William Shakespeare - 1887Full view - About this book
 | F. Peel - English language - 1874 - 144 pages
...the winds. XXII. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,1 But sad mortality o'ersways'' their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ?3 0 how shall summer's honey4 breath hold5 out Against the wreckful siege of battering6 days, When... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 836 pages
...IXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless Bat sad mortality o'ersways their power, [sea, ill another fervent flood '! 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...decay inevitable. SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea. But sad mortality o'er-sways lling in Thy love ? What to the joy, the deeper joy,...This joy e'en now on earth is ours, But only, Lord, a Where rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? О fearful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 380 pages
...fears to lose. LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...no stronger than a flower ? O ! how shall summer's honey-breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable arc not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pages
...it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, norearth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1879 - 844 pages
...fears to lose. LXV Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? 0 fearful meditation ! where, alack ! Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid ? Or what... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...And by their verdict is determined The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part. — Ibid., 46. How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? — -Ibid., 65. But be contented: when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away. —... | |
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 pages
...LOVE'S MIRACLE. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays 1 O, fearful meditation ! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...LOVE. (Sonnet Lxv.) Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,. But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 5 O, how shall summer's honey-breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 362 pages
...to lose. LXV. I Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, 1 But sad mortality o'ersways their power, 'How with this rage shall beauty hold...Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rosks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays ? 0 fearful meditation... | |
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