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" Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower... "
Sabrinae corolla in hortulis Regiae scholae salopiensis contexuerunt tres ... - Page 162
edited by - 1890 - 473 pages
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New Cyclopaedia of Poetical Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching ...

1872 - 710 pages
...thought to ask ; I never knew, sword ; BE-A.TJTY. BE-A-TJTY. 910. BEAUTY, Exposure of. Since brass, wreckf ul siege of battering days, Where rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so...
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Works, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. LXY. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality...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...
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Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse

Charles Granville Gepp - 1874 - 240 pages
...When will that mournful day pass away (cado) from my mind? EXERCISE X. (Shakespeare). Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality...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...
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Exercises in Dictation; with Hints on Paraphrasing & Composition. For the ...

F. Peel - 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...
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Shakespeare-lexicon: A Complete Dictionary of All the English ..., Volume 1

Alexander Schmidt - 1874 - 706 pages
...suitors to their throne, — s the thing we sue for, Ant. II, 1, 4. 2) trans, a) to impair: roéis impregnable are not so stout, nor gates of steel so strong, but time — s, Sonn. 65, 8. infirmity, that — s the wise, Tw. I, 5, 82. b) to destroy: every day that comes...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 12

1875 - 1070 pages
...the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss und loss with store; .Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power. So sang our Shakspeare. Now that the details of ' loss ' and ' store,' of decay and restoration, have...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 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...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Some, none resist, though not exceeding fair. Ytung. 278. BEAUTY : its decay inevitable. SINCE brass, bright That crown of joy above, What is it to the...This joy e'en now on earth is ours, But only, Lord, a Where rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? О fearful...
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The plays and poems of William Shakespeare, ed. by J.P. Collier, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1878 - 380 pages
...is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality...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...
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The Poems

William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pages
...which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, norearth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their...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...
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