 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded, to decay : Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That time will...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power : How... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded, to decay : Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That time will...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power :•... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...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,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ; O ! how shall summer's hungry breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days ; When... | |
 | 1814 - 286 pages
...store ; When I have seen such interchange of State, Or State itself confounded to decay, Ruin bath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose ». * In this beautiful line SHAKESPERE afterward, like HOMER and VIRGIL, borrow'd from himself. CL... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...much." STEEVENS. When I have seen such interchange of state a, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That time...a plea*, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days s When rocks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...much." STEEVENS. When I have seen such interchange of state 3, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That time...their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea4, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminateThat time will come and take my love away. This thought...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate— That Time...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That Time...o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty bold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...hungry ocean gain 5 When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; I0 Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. 1, 2. When I have seen cast down by the hand of Time the memorials of men who have perished in the... | |
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Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That Time will come and take my love away: — This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. 
