For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with... Library of Southern Literature: Biography - Page 4770edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
| John Gamble - 1819 - 748 pages
..." Viewing this gorgeous monument the poet might with great propriety exclaim, " Thou so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die !" However, in process of time, all this magnificence was doomed to destruction : the treasures which... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. UNIVERSITY CARRIEB, Who sickened in the tilae of hie vacancy ; bong forbid to go to London, by reason,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...our fancy of itself bereaving ', Dost make us marble with too much conceiving; And, so sepulcher'd, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. JOHN MILTON 3. Upon Master William Shakspeare, the deceased Author. Poets are born, not made. When... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. UNIVERSITY CARRIER, WHO SICKENED IN THE TIME OF HTS VACANCY ; BEING FOEBID TO GO TO LONDON, BY REASON... | |
| Charles Kelsall - 1823 - 100 pages
...thou our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving ; And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. (Vanishes.} SHADE OF DRYDEN appears. Let the monument be towering and spacious; for, of all poets,... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1823 - 578 pages
...thou our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving ; And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. (Vanishes.) SHARE or DRYDEN appears. — Let the monument be towering and spacious ; for, of all poets,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...— unvalued] Inestimable; Muses arc called by the old poets above price. Johnson. And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die*. 15 XI. On the University Carrier, who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thou our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving ; And so sepulcher'd, by William C. Hall SONNETS. To the Nightingale. O nightingale, that on yon blos'my spray Warblest at eve, when all the... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...thon, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. l This Epitaph is dated 1630, in Milton's own edition of his poems in 1(17::. PARNELL. THE HERMIT,... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...thou our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving ; And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. XI. ', ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, WHO SICKENED IN THE TIME OF HIS vACANCY, BEING FORBID TO GO TO LONDON,... | |
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