 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 502 pages
...room : * * Alluding, as Whalley noted, to an elegy on Shakespeare by W. Basse, which opens thus :— " Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift, For until doomsday hardly... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 692 pages
...: * * Alluding, as Whalley noted, to an elegy on Shakespeare by W. Basse, which opens thus : — " Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift, For until doomsday hardly... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1896 - 520 pages
...to wear the dressing of his lines, 1 In allusion to W. Basse's elegy on Shakspeare, beginning — ' Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespear in your threefold, fourfold tomb.' 1 Seneca. Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...ADDISON. Than Timoleon's arms require, And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre. AKENSIDE: Ode. Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakspeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb WILLIAM BASSE: On Shakspeare. How does Cartesius all his... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...; but his Book ! WILLIAM BASSE. ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WHO DIED IN APRIL, ANNO DOMINI 1616. RENOWNED SPENSER, lie a thought more nigh To...little nearer SPENSER ! to make room For SHAKESPEARE in your threefold, fourfold, tomb. To lodge all four in one bed, make a shift Until Doomsday ! for... | |
 | English poetry - 1899 - 788 pages
...just mention^.! was put forth by a certain William Basse (or Bus) in bis Epitaph on Shakttpeare : " Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold fourfold tomb." Jonson's words are obviously in the nature of an answer to this passage.... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - Elegiac poetry - 1900 - 330 pages
...authorship rests on the fact that his name is attached to the lines in the Lansdownc and other MSS.~\ Renowned Spenser lie a thought more nigh To learned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift Until Doomsday, for hardly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 546 pages
...circulating in manuscript (first printed in the first edition of Donne's collected poems, 1633) : — ON MR WM. SHAKESPEARE. He died in April 1616. " Renowned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your three-fold, four-fold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift Until Doomsday, for hardly... | |
 | Israel Gollancz, Walter Bagehot - English drama - 1901 - 242 pages
...circulating in manuscript (first printed in the first edition of Donne's collected poems, 1633) :— ON MR WM. SHAKESPEARE. He died in April 1616. " Renowned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your three-fold, four-fold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift Until Doomsday, for hardly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1901 - 396 pages
...circulating in manuscript (first printed in the first edition of Donne's collected poems, 1633) : — ON MR WM. SHAKESPEARE. He died in April 1616. " Renowned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your three-fold, four-fold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift Until Doomsday, for hardly... | |
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Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer ; and, rare Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser ; to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold fourfold tomb... 
