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" 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 a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name... "
Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critcal Notices and An ... - Page 311
1855 - 749 pages
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The Excursion: A Poem

William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star y-pointing pyramid ? Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame,...astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument, And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.' Page 206....
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 29

1847 - 662 pages
...of whom John Milton gloriously asks : — " What needs my Shakspeare for hia honor'd bones The labor of an age in piled stones * Or that his hallow'd relics...pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame ! What need's! thou suc/i weak witness of thy name 1 Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones : Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-y pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,...Hast built thyself a live-long monument For whilst to th' shame of slow endeavouring art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...
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Results of Reading

James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd relics should be laid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of Memory, great heir of Fame,...astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.* 1 Johnson (Preface to Shakspeare). 2 Sic in orig. (q. " of having"?) We venerate Milton as a man of...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...the preceding, have no name appended to them ui the folio, 1632, but Or that his hallnw'd reliquos should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear...fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name 1 Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument : For whilst, to the...
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Publications, Issue 140

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1844 - 132 pages
...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,...need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our reverence and astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument.* To conclude, we may unite with...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, Etc. Etc

William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame,...astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument, And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.' Page 498....
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The Poems of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ! Dear Son of Memory, great Heir of Fame,...astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument, And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.' Page 498....
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Rural sketches and poems, chiefly relating to Cleveland

John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 pages
...our Church-yard meditation is at an end. The first is to Shakspere : — '• What needs my Shakspere for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled...Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness...
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The ruins of Athens, a dramatic masque, adapted [from the orig. by A.F.F ...

William Bartholomew - 1846 - 24 pages
...labour of an age in piled stones, Or, that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of Memory, great heir of Fame,...built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow endeavouring Art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves...
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