 | William Shakespeare - 1804
...(myself) that for myself I praise, Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents, Than nnswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807
...saying that his grave should not be dignified by the slightest memorial, falls to the ground. " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments " Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; «• But you shall shine more bright in these contents " Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807
...Our poet's 55th Sonnet furnishes a strong confirmation of my interpretation of this passage: " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments " Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; " But you shall shine more bright in these contents " Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807
...Our poet's 55th Sonnet furnishes a strong confirmation of my interpretation of this passage : " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments " Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; " But you shall shine more bright in these contents "Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 204 стор.
...(myself) that for myself I praise,. Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents. Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...you, beauteous and lovely yonth, When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. SONNET LV. Nor marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you «hall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time«... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812
...(myself) that for myself I praise,. Painting my age with beauty of thy days. A LIVING MONUMENT. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents* Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time*... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823
...through all the mists of sorrow and evil fortune which surrounded him, and to cheer him on his way. " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme," he says, in Sonnet 55; and again, in the 8lst and others, he speaks to the same efiect. The next which... | |
 | 1835
...following sonnet. t Again, with no idle vanity, but in the confidence of surpassing genius — " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.'' $ The same feeling is expressed in the sixtieth, the sixty-third, rthe sixty-fifth, and other sonnets.... | |
 | 1887
...perish. He knew their value. He was the only man in the world at that time who did. Hear him : " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme." Sonnet LV. And again : " Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade. When in eternal lines to... | |
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Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the... 
