 | Ethan Allen Hitchcock - 1866 - 298 sider
...is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Vide Sonnet 6. LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with his rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sider
...Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Si. Son, 60. O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, AY hen rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays P Sh. Son.... | |
 | 1869 - 436 sider
...that which it fears to lose. 8 W. Shakespeare O INCE brass, nor stone,nor earth, nor boundless sea, vj But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays 1 O fearful meditation ! where, alack ! Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what... | |
 | Carl Karpf - 1869 - 204 sider
...away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...is no stronger than a flower? O! how shall summer's honey-breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1869 - 176 sider
...wisdom To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb." — Macb. iv. 3. 10. " Since [there is neither (163)] brass nor stone nor earth nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power." — Sonn. 64. 167. Ellipse of It. " (ft) remains That in the official marks invested you Anon do meet... | |
 | Henry Green - 1870 - 644 sider
...still more in accordance with Whitney's ideas,—not a transcript of them, but an appropriation,— " Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...so strong, but Time decays ? O fearful meditation t where, alack 1 Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what strong hand can hold his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 740 sider
...away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea;...stout. Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays t O fearful meditation 1 where, alack, Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid f Or what... | |
 | Ellen Clutton-Brock - 1871 - 336 sider
...he would. It was as though every power within his soul, arose and cried " Hallelujah !" CHAPTER X. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That Time will come and take my love away : This thought is... | |
 | Ellen Clutton Brock - 1871 - 446 sider
...would. It was as_though every power within his soul, arose and cried " Hallelujah !" 207 CHAPTER X. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That Time will come and take my love away : This thought is... | |
 | Mrs. Carey Brock - 1871 - 192 sider
...as though every power within his soul arose and cried " Hallelujah ! " CHAPTER XXXV. " Since braes, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? " Ruin hath tanght me thus to ruminate — That Tune will come and take my love away : This thought... | |
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Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? 
