 What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy...  Papers of the Manchester Literary Club - Sida 951875Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | L. Fussell - 1818 - 322 sidor
...egg of a goose ! " Viewing this gorgeous monument the poet might with great propriety exclaim, " Thou so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die ! " However, in process of time, all this magnificence was doomed to destruction : the treasures which... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 sidor
...astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, to' the shame of slow--endeavourh)g art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath,...lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. UNIVERSITY CARRIEB, Who sickened in the tilae of hie vacancy ; bong forbid to go to London, by reason,... | |
 | John Gamble - 1819 - 748 sidor
...egg of a goose ! " Viewing this gorgeous monument the poet might with great propriety exclaim, " Thou so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die !" However, in process of time, all this magnificence was doomed to destruction : the treasures which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 sidor
...our fancy of itself bereaving ', Dost make us marble with too much conceiving; And, so sepulcher'd, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. JOHN MILTON 3. Upon Master William Shakspeare, the deceased Author. Poets are born, not made. When... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 sidor
...astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, to' the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath,...lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. UNIVERSITY CARRIER, WHO SICKENED IN THE TIME OF HTS VACANCY ; BEING FOEBID TO GO TO LONDON, BY REASON... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1823 - 578 sidor
...astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. (Vanishes.) SHARE or DRYDEN appears. — Let the monument be towering and spacious ; for, of all poets,... | |
 | Charles Kelsall - 1823 - 100 sidor
...astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. (Vanishes.} SHADE OF DRYDEN appears. Let the monument be towering and spacious; for, of all poets,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sidor
...For whilst, to th' shame of blow-endeavouring art. Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart 1 '> Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those...conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, li That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER , Who ñckened in the... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 sidor
...Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thon, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble...lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. l This Epitaph is dated 1630, in Milton's own edition of his poems in 1(17::. PARNELL. THE HERMIT,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 sidor
...themselves. For the 11. — unvalued] Inestimable; Muses arc called by the old poets above price. Johnson. And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die*. 15 XI. On the University Carrier, who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London,... | |
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