 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 594 pages
...roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue* only is their show, They live...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 338 pages
...verse distils your truth. 1 PJent*. * :. e. tne blossoms of the canker-rose, or ciog-rose. SONNETS. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes,...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 pages
...roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue* only is their show, They live...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besinear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 606 pages
...thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue8 only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the. work... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 596 pages
...thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue5 only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | James White - 1843 - 310 pages
...says—rather, however, extending the " exegi monumentum, are perennius 1 ' of Horace : " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | Martingale - Country life - 1843 - 314 pages
...says—rather, however, extending the " exegi monumentum are perennius" of Horace : "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...roses; Hang on such thorns , and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But , for their virtue only is their show , They live...shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone , besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn , And broils root out the... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - English literature - 1847 - 352 pages
...this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unwept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues...fire shall burn The living record of your memory. The vulgar error of Shakspeare's reserve must have arisen with those who never saw his miscellaneous... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth.— 54. Not marble, not the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmcar'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
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Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... 
