| James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...rug. Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth . . . these rebel pow'rs that thee array, Why dost them pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward...gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost tliou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? Is... | |
| Dunbar P. Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton - Drama - 1999 - 268 pages
...that the immortal soul is the tenant of a perishable tenement. One couplet will serve as a specimen: 'Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?' Elsewhere we find Valentine speaking of his heart as 'tenantless' when Sylvia leaves him (Two Gentlemen... | |
| James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...we find Shakespeare's fullest picture of such mourning: Poore soule the center of my sinfull earth. Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth Painting thy outward walls so costlie gay? Shall wormes inheritors of this excesse Eate up thy charge? is this thy bodies end? (146.1,... | |
| Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...Sonnet 146 and proceeds to draw out an extended image of outward ostentation and inward depravity: 'Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, | Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?' (146.1, 3-4). Like 'ego' or 'psyche', 'soul' seems to exist 'in here'. Its relationship to the world... | |
| Randall Barron - 2000 - 258 pages
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| Parke Godwin - 1999 - 316 pages
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