 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 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, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn. And broils root out the work... | |
 | Carl Karpf - 1869 - 204 pages
...gives to necessary wrinkles place But makes antiquity for aye his page; Sonett 55. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...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... | |
 | Henry Green - Emblems - 1870 - 638 pages
...5th Sonnet ( Works, vol. ix. p. 578) is written almost as Whitney wrote, — " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents, Than unswept stone, besmearM with sluttish lime. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...whose worthiness gives scope, Being had, to triumph, being lacked, to hope. LV. "ot 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... | |
 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...distils your truth. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564 — 1616. THE POET'S PRAISE IMMORTAL. 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 - 1874 - 588 pages
...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, byd verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, not the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. • — oaptain./rtfrf* in the carcanet.] The superior jewels in the... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...pride. Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope, Being had, to triumph, being lacked, to hope. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes,...more bright in these contents Than unswept Stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...310-11; Act ii., sc. 4, 137; Act III., sc. 2, 16-17, & c * IMMORTALITY IN THE POET'S VERSE. (SONNET LV.) Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes,...shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, 5 And broils root out the work... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 380 pages
...deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the...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... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 278 pages
...thought lowly of himself ? Is it in the fifty-fifth sonnet ? which opens, — " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time ; " or in the eighty-first ? which ends, — " Your monument shall be... | |
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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... 
