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" For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart 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 with too... "
The Harvard Classics - Page 26
1909
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, totheshameofslow-endeavouringart, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath,...fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with tco much conceiving; And, so sepulcher'd, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Thou in our wonder and astonishment [name r Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow,...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. §11. Song: on May Morning. MILTOW. Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger. Comes dancing from...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1817 - 494 pages
...of fame, Whatneed'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Has built thyself a live-long monument; for whilst, to...Dost make us marble with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchered, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. MILTON. *23. 1616....
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst, to' the shame of slow--endeavourh)g art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath,...lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. UNIVERSITY CARRIEB, Who sickened in the tilae of hie vacancy ; bong forbid to go to London, by reason,...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...Shakspeare, for his honor'd bones, The labor of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear...lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. UNIVERSITY CARRIER, WHO SICKENED IN THE TIME OF HTS VACANCY ; BEING FOEBID TO GO TO LONDON, BY REASON...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 22

Abraham John Valpy - 1823 - 578 pages
...labor of an age in piled stones i Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star y-pointing pyramid ? , • Dear son of memory ! great heir of...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. (Vanishes.) SHARE or DRYDEN appears. — Let the monument be towering and spacious ; for, of all poets,...
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The First Sitting of the Committee on the Proposed Monument to Shakespeare

Charles Kelsall - 1823 - 100 pages
...age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star y-pointing pyramid Î Dear son of memory ! great heir of fame ! What need'st...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. (Vanishes.} SHADE OF DRYDEN appears. Let the monument be towering and spacious; for, of all poets,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to the shame of slow endeavouring C. Hall sepulcher'd, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. SONNETS. To the Nightingale....
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 502 pages
...For whilst, to th' shame of blow-endeavouring art. Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart 1 '> Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those...conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, li That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER , Who ñckened in the...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thon, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble...lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. l This Epitaph is dated 1630, in Milton's own edition of his poems in 1(17::. PARNELL. THE HERMIT,...
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