 | Villemain (M., Abel-François) - 1847 - 408 Seiten
...live long monument : Forwhilst, to the shame of slow undeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and lhat each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphick lines with deep impression lo«k ; Then Ihou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving : And... | |
 | 1847 - 668 Seiten
...hid Under a stary-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame ! What need'st thou suck weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a long-lived monument." In a kind of parenthesis between the writer of these lines and him of whom they... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 Seiten
...pyramid ? Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name t Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument, And BO sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.' Page 206.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 Seiten
...pyramid ? Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name f Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument, And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That king* for such a tomb would wish to die.' Page 206.... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 Seiten
...should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder...Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble,... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 Seiten
...should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder...astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. MILTON. 2.... | |
 | 1848 - 588 Seiten
...incomparable worth of his possession) he termed him : — "Dear Son of memory, great heir of fame, Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument." He also exclaims at the commencement of the same ' Epitaph" " What needs my Shakspere for his honored... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 Seiten
...pyramid 1 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name t Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument ; And so sepulcred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. The reader... | |
 | 1896 - 664 Seiten
...dominating personality is enshrined. Thus the tribute runs :— For whilst to the shame of flow-endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book Those Delphic linee with deep impression took, Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble... | |
 | Lionel Trilling - 1967 - 702 Seiten
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name... 
