 | Georg Gottfried Gervinus - 1883 - 1020 pages
...in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof — and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows ; yet...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. SHAKESPEARE'S DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. OF the two narrative or rather descriptive poems which we possess... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 424 pages
...possession so ; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and prov'd, a very woe ; Before, a joy propos'd ; behind, a dream. All this...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. cxxx. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is far more red than her lips' red ; If snow... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Richard Chenevix Trench - 1884 - 304 pages
...in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof — and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream ; All this the world well knows ;...To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell." It has been sometimes debated how far Shakespeare knew himself for all that he was, was aware of the unique... | |
 | 1885 - 906 pages
...the act, " till action," — " A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows ; yet...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell." This sonnet is one of the most vivid, comprehensive, and masterly of all the Sonnets of Shakespeare.... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...request to have, ext remc ; A bliss in proof, — and proved, a very woe ; Before, a Joy proposed ; behind, a dream : All this the world well knows ;...well To shun the Heaven that leads men to this Hell. 3LuS't. — Shakespeare. WITHIN a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous Tears Had left the flushing... | |
 | William Sharp - 1886 - 402 pages
...and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows : yet...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. Between the sonnets of Shakespeare and those of Milton' there is not much to chronicle concerning the... | |
 | William Sharp - 1886 - 424 pages
...having, and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows : yet...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. Between Shakespeare and Milton there is not much to chronicle concerning the history of the sonnet.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 236 pages
...possession so ; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and prov'd, a very woe ; Before, a joy propos'd ; behind, a dream. All this...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by these rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou... | |
 | Hezekiah Lord Hosmer - 1887 - 308 pages
...possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream. All this...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. This stanza, which describes the guilty passion that influenced Claudius to murder his brother, and... | |
 | David M. Main - 1886 - 342 pages
...in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, — and proved, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows ; yet...well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. "TJOOR Soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fooled by these rebel powers that thee array, Why dost... | |
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Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; Before a joy proposed; behind a dream. All this the... 
