Not scepters, no, but reeds, soon bruised soon broken ', And let this worldly pomp our wits enchant, All fades, and scarcely leaves behind a token. Those golden palaces, those gorgeous halls, With furniture superfluously fair, Those stately courts, those... The Dublin university magazine - Page 466by University magazine - 1854Full view - About this book
| Charles Sharp - 1888 - 110 pages
...one wave of his wand — '' Those golden palaces, those gorgeous halls, With furniture superlatively fair , Those stately courts, those sky-encountering walls, Evanish all like vapours in the air." He holds a lordship, this Prospero, under the Sovereign — Art ! At this point the Artist, thinking... | |
| Georg Brandes - 1896 - 1026 pages
...folgende Verse: Let greatness of her glassy scepters vaunt, Not scepters, no, but reeds, soon bruis'd, soon broken; And let this worldly pomp our wits enchant,...furniture superfluously fair, Those stately courts, those sky-encountring walls, Evanish all like vapours in the air. i Es gibt in der Geschichte vielleicht... | |
| Georg Brandes - 1896 - 498 pages
...scepters, no, but reeds, soon bruis'd, soon broken; And let this worldly pomp our wits enchant, AH fades, and scarcely leaves behind a token. Those golden...furniture superfluously fair, Those stately courts, those sky-encountring walls, Evanish all like vapours in the air. Der gives maaske ikke i Historien et mere... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1897 - 708 pages
...vaunt ; Not scepters, no, but reeds, soon bruis'd, soon broken ; And let this worldly pomp our w1ts enchant ; All fades, and scarcely leaves behind a...furniture superfluously fair ; Those stately courts, those sky-encount'ring walls, Evanish all like vapours in the air." The sonorities of the rhymed verse seem... | |
| Georg Brandes - 1901 - 562 pages
...And let this worldly pomp our wits cnchant. All fades, and scarcely leaves behind a token. "l hose golden palaces, those gorgeous halls. With furniture superfluously fair. Those stately courts, those sky-encountring walls, Evanish all like vapours in the air. Der gives maaske ikke i Historien et mere... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1910 - 972 pages
...of a dream. Let greatness of her glassy sceptres vaunt, Not sceptres, no, but reeds, soon bruis'd, soon broken ; And let this worldly pomp our wits enchant,...furniture superfluously fair ; Those stately courts, those sky-encount'ring walls Evanish all — like vapours in the air. Our painted pleasures but apparel pain... | |
| Georg Brandes - 1901 - 566 pages
...disse Vers: Let greatness of her glassy scepters vaunt, Not scepters, no, but reeds. soon bruis'd, soon broken: And let this worldly pomp our wits enchant....furniture superfluously fair. Those stately courts, those sky-encouutring walls, Evnnish all like vapours in the air. Der gives maaske ikke i Historien et mere... | |
| George Gregory Smith - 1919 - 312 pages
...foamy face Let not a wrinkle be, when you embrace The boat that Earth's perfections doth contain." 1 " Those golden palaces, those gorgeous halls, With furniture superfluously fair, Those stately courts, those sky-encountring walls, Do vanish all like vapours in the air." 2 " He either fears his fate too much,... | |
| Archibald Watson Bain - 1921 - 296 pages
...what the Earl of Sterline said in a poem of 1604 : — " Let this worldly pomp our wits enchantAll fades, and scarcely leaves behind a token ; Those...sky-encountering walls Evanish all like vapours in the air." 1 But the attempt to recast inferior verse or clumsy or archaic prose into a more clear and beautiful... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1998 - 260 pages
...Alexander, Earl of Stirling, published in 1603 and dedicated to King James: . . . let this worldly pompour wits enchant, All fades, and scarcely leaves behind...furniture superfluously fair: Those stately courts, those skyencount'ring walls Evanish all like vapours in the air. iPoetical Works, eds. LE Kastner and HB... | |
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