 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 trang
...should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid 1 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. What need'st thou — and deliver to the army This news of peace :...pledge your grace : and, if you knew what pains [ have Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of ii -. • I i bereaving, Doth make... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 trang
...should be hid, Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder...a live-long monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow- endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 trang
...should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame ! What need's! thou such weak witness of thy name ''. Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a long-lived monument." But if this honour be not needed, what needs there for our Shakspeare, the still... | |
 | Villemain (M., Abel-François) - 1847 - 408 trang
...live long monument : Forwhilst, to the shame of slow undeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and lhat each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphick lines with deep impression lo«k ; Then Ihou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving : And... | |
 | 1847 - 668 trang
...hid Under a stary-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame ! What need'st thou suck weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a long-lived monument." In a kind of parenthesis between the writer of these lines and him of whom they... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 trang
...pyramid ? Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name t Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument, And BO sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.' Page 206.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 trang
...pyramid ? Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name f Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument, And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That king* for such a tomb would wish to die.' Page 206.... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 trang
...should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder...Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble,... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 trang
...should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder...astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. MILTON. 2.... | |
 | 1848 - 588 trang
...incomparable worth of his possession) he termed him : — "Dear Son of memory, great heir of fame, Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument." He also exclaims at the commencement of the same ' Epitaph" " What needs my Shakspere for his honored... | |
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name... 
