 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
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. 5241 Shaks. : Sonnet be. O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against...wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable arc not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? 5242 Shaks. : Sonnet Ixv. Time's glory... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 946 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 a plea. Whose action is no stronger than a Mower ? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackf'ul siege of battering days,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 424 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...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, Kut sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this'rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger...battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stcu; Nor gate, of steel so strong, but time decays ? O fearful meditation! where, alack! Shall Time's... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 574 pages
...— Shakespeare. SINCE brass nor stone, nor earth nor boundless sea, lint sad Mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall Beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a (lower? O, how shall Summer's honev breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When... | |
 | Hezekiah Lord Hosmer - Sonnets, English - 1887 - 312 pages
...genius. SONNET 65. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering clays, AVhen rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...obstructed our entry. It took up the theme of restraint. Bound by a daisy. Fetters of flowers. Flower power. 'How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?' (Sonnet 65, 3). A mutative metaphor. Handcuffed by a daisy chain. A Transforming Image 'There's a daisy.'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...fears to lose. 64 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Sonnets, English - 1995 - 196 pages
...die. This form is i Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, 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? 5 O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 604 pages
...sixty-fifth sonnet: 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? The inset's scenario replicates this sonnet's answer: beauty is threatened by a harsh reality that... | |
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