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" Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. "
The Poems of William Shakespeare: Comprehending Venus and Adonis, Tarquin ... - Page 96
by William Shakespeare - 1808 - 204 pages
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A Treasury of English Sonnets

David M. Main - 1880 - 490 pages
...So true a fool is love, that in your will Though you do anything, he thinks no ill. LXIX (60) I" IKE as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, •*—...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time, that gave, doth now his gift confound....
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A treasury of English sonnets, ed. with notes by D.M. Main

David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...your will Though you do anything, he thinks no ill. WILLIAM SHAKSPEAXI 1564 — 1616 LXIX (60) T IKE as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time, that gave, doth now his gift confound....
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 128

1880 - 812 pages
...which I will repeat toyou, for I happen to remember it!— "Like as the waves make towards thepebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave, doth now his gift confound....
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the ..., Volumes 18-20

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 658 pages
...the same.6 O, sure I am, the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. 60. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.7 Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...flowers, that are not gather'd in their prime, Rot and consume themselves in little time. Sh. fen. <$- Ad. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...before ; In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Sh. Son. 60. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow...
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Treasury of English Sonnets. Ed. from the Original Sources with Notes and ...

David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...(60) "*~ - So do our minutes hasten to their end ; |" IKE as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, Each changing place with that which goes before, In...main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time, that gave, doth now his gift confound....
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Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...that yourself arise, You live in this, aud dwell in lovers' eyes. LX. Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore. So do our minutes hasten to their...which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do couteud. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooke"d...
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The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies ..., Volume 2

1881 - 406 pages
...in his pocket as a specimen." We quite agree with him. SONNETS. TIME. Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their...place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forward do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned,...
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What Happens in Literature

Edward W. Rosenheim - 2000 - 190 pages
...comparison of Housman's poem with such lines as these two, which begin one of Shakespeare's sonnets: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. Comparison, either implicit or explicit, is only one of the ways in which the poet, departing from...
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Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems

A. B. Taylor - 2000 - 240 pages
...the pages back a gathering or so: Like as the waves make towards the pibled shore, So do our minuites hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toile all forwards do contend. (60.1-4) But looke As every wave dryves other foorth, and that that...
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