 How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, 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, but...  The Works of William Shakespeare... - Page 200by William Shakespeare - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...the parts that thou shouldst bear. O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are...so strong, but Time decays ? O fearful meditation ! where, alack ! Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what strong hand can hold his... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1874 - 240 pages
...(cado) from my mind? EXERCISE X. (Shakespeare). Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with...flower ? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out 5 Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates... | |
 | F. Peel - English language - 1874 - 144 pages
...rock exposed to the fury of the winds. XXII. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,1 But sad mortality o'ersways'' their power, How with...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ?3 0 how shall summer's honey4 breath hold5 out Against the wreckful siege of battering6 days, When... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...IXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless Bat sad mortality o'ersways their power, [sea, ill another fervent flood '! 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...fair. Ytung. 278. BEAUTY : its decay inevitable. SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea. t to the brighter hope Of dwelling in Thy love ? What...Head, Of fellowship with Thee ? This joy e'en now on wreckful siege of battering days Where rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 380 pages
...weep to have that which it fears to lose. LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with...no stronger than a flower ? O ! how shall summer's honey-breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable arc not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pages
...But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, norearth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1879 - 844 pages
...weep to have that which it fears to lose. LXV Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Songs, English - 1879 - 274 pages
...TIME AND LOVE C INCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-svvays their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...And by their verdict is determined The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part. — Ibid., 46. How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? — -Ibid., 65. But be contented: when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away. —... | |
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