 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1181887Full view - About this book
 | Lars Engle - 1993 - 284 pages
...Hut you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...fire shall burn The living record of your memory. '(lainst death and all oblivious emnity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room. Ev'n... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 212 pages
...But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 196 pages
...to stand in the same relation to both of them but in fact makes sense with only one, eg Sonnet 55: Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Burn' makes perfect sense with 'war's quick fire' but not with 'Mars his sword', for which another... | |
 | Diana E. Henderson - 1995 - 304 pages
...the process: "Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Of princes shall outlive this pow'rful rhyme"; "Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn / The living record of your memory" (Sonnets 55.1-2, 7-8). So much for "brazen tombs" won by these hermetic "conquerors" of their own affection,... | |
 | Johan Elsness - 1997 - 456 pages
...But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, be smear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of all... | |
 | William Gerber - 1998 - 148 pages
...But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall bum 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth: your praise shall still find room... | |
 | Ilona Bell - 1998 - 298 pages
...his mistress's wit. Eternizing poems like Shakespeare's proclaim the poet's power to conquer time: "Gainst death and all oblivious enmity / Shall you...praise shall still find room / Even in the eyes of all posterity."46 Carpe diem poems like Herrick's "Gather ye rosebuds" summon poetic authority to urge... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 pages
...stames overmm, And broils root out me work of masonty, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall bum The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity Shall you pace forih; your pciise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out... | |
 | A. B. Taylor - 2000 - 240 pages
...the poet had started with Golding's ending — Nor Mars his sword, nor warres quick fire shall burne The living record of your memory. Gainst death, and...oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth, your praise shall stil finde roome, Even in the eyes of all posterity That weare this world out to the ending doome.... | |
 | Roy Eriksen - 2001 - 224 pages
...But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. 5 When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death, and all-oblivious enmity 10 Shall you pace forth, your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of... | |
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