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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?... "
L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas - Page 69
by John Milton - 1901 - 130 pages
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ...

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...prefixed as to leave the reader in doubt whether himself or his father was the person designed. STEEVENS. Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument: For whilst, to th' shame of slow-endeav'ring art, Thy easy numbers flow; and that each heart Hath, from the leaves...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...my Shakspeare, for his honour'd The labour of an age in piled stones ? [bones, Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid...Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, totheshameofslow-endeavouringart, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath, from the leaves...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointed pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,...a live-long monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow; and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued...
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Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointed pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,...a live-long monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointed pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,...a live-long monument. For whilst, to the shame of slow endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow; and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued...
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The Friend: A Series of Essays

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...be unworthy ! What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under...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. ttNtlTH : PRINTED...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...reliques should be hid Under a st«ry pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, 5 What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou...built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each htart 19 Hath from the leaves...
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The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem

William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pages
...be unworthy ! What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under...astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long Monument. And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, i'(i That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die. rj •...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a slarry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory ! great heir of fame ! What need'st thou such weak witness of thy Thou in our wonder and astonishment [name r Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1817 - 494 pages
...SHAKSPEARE for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ; Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, Whatneed'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Has built thyself...
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