 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...(myself) that for myself I praise, Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents, Than nnswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 398 pages
...saying that his grave should not be dignified by the slightest memorial, falls to the ground. " 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 386 pages
...Our poet's 55th Sonnet furnishes a strong confirmation of my interpretation of this passage: " 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 390 pages
...Our poet's 55th Sonnet furnishes a strong confirmation of my interpretation of this passage : " 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...(myself) that for myself I praise,. Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 740 pages
...you, beauteous and lovely yonth, When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. SONNET LV. Nor marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you «hall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time«... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...(myself) that for myself I praise,. Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. 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*... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 426 pages
...through all the mists of sorrow and evil fortune which surrounded him, and to cheer him on his way. " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme," he says, in Sonnet 55; and again, in the 8lst and others, he speaks to the same efiect. The next which... | |
 | 1835 - 564 pages
...following sonnet. t Again, with no idle vanity, but in the confidence of surpassing genius — " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.'' $ The same feeling is expressed in the sixtieth, the sixty-third, rthe sixty-fifth, and other sonnets.... | |
 | 1887 - 668 pages
...perish. He knew their value. He was the only man in the world at that time who did. Hear him : " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme." Sonnet LV. And again : " Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade. When in eternal lines to... | |
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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... 
