 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 360 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...Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rooks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays ? O fearful meditation... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...Feeds on the rarities of nature's truih, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Sh. Son. 60. O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out .Against...stout. Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? Sh. Son. 65-. Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...noiseless foot of time, Steals, ere we can effect them. ¿. All's Well That Ends Well. Act V. Sc. 3. "Tis О fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong... | |
 | William James Linton - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...in lovers' eyes. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall Beauty hold...alack ! Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest be hid ? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? Or who his spoil of Beauty can forbid ?... | |
 | Kegan Paul - 1883 - 332 pages
...it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...decays ? O fearful meditation ! where, alack ! Shall Tune's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? Or... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 770 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 1 O fearful meditation ! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1883 - 596 pages
...— That time will come, and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose LXV. 114....Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O ! how ghall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 972 pages
...This thought is as a death, which cannot choose* But weep to have that which it fears to lose LXV. IK. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...stronger than a flower? O ! how shall summer's honey hrenth hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,... | |
 | Franklin Harvey Head - Education, Higher - 1883 - 32 pages
...now can Athens be the world's one city which has secure foundations: the one city which can surely " Hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days,...stout ~Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays." For she will bo forever the sacred city of our souls, and "Shall live Where breath most breathes, even... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 944 pages
...it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...stronger than a flower ? O, how shall summer's honey breatli hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,... | |
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