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" When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, Ruin... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 283
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded, to decay : Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, The time will come and take my love away. This thought...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power : How...
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Laura: Or, An Anthology of Sonnets, (on the Petrarcan Model,) and ..., Volume 2

English poetry - 1814 - 286 pages
...store ; When I have seen such interchange of State, Or State itself confounded to decay, Ruin bath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose ». * In this beautiful line SHAKESPERE afterward, like HOMER and VIRGIL, borrow'd from himself. CL...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminateThat time will come and take my love away. This thought...their power, 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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught...their power, 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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, ami loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught...o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty bold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out...
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Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse

Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...hungry ocean gain 5 When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; I0 Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. 1, 2. When I have seen cast down by the hand of Time the memorials of men who have perished in the...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TIR'D with all these, for restful death I cry,— As, to behold desert a beggar...
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A Garland of Love, Wreathed of Pleasant Flowers, Gathered in the Field of ...

Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. SONNET LXXIII. THAT time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence." 15 — i. 3. 497 The frailty of beauty. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...their power, 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...
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The book of sonnets, ed by A.M. Woodford

A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught...choose, But weep to have that which it fears to lose. SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How...
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