 | Charles Hartshorne - 1997 - 276 стор.
...harsh or hard consonants. Consider the following quatrains from one of Shakespeare's wonderful sonnets: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea...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 impregnable... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2001 - 420 стор.
...him to it. It issues in some of the most memorable descriptions of mutability and loss ever written: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable... | |
 | Sonya L. Jones - 1998 - 268 стор.
...cautiously titled "Toward Bethlehem," and its epigraph from Shakespeare's Sonnet LXV is about fragility: How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Even the ending paragraph quoted above hovers over the material details of disembarkation and customs,... | |
 | Charles A. Riley - 1998 - 380 стор.
...conversation about Mapplethorpe's work in the United States, they remind us of a couplet from Shakespeare: "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?" Those razor-sharp petals cut through a tough knot in the theory-laden art of our time. Purity in late-twentieth-century... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 стор.
...an entirely different nature from the force of power. The answer to Shakespeare's anguished question Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? (65) is that beauty is more powerful than power, because beauty renews and propagates itself unendingly,... | |
 | Cees Koster - 2000 - 266 стор.
...keiner! Nie! Es sei denn, dies trifft zu: Aus meiner Tinte Schwarz, draus leuchtest du. 65 Shakespeare: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Oh how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 стор.
...state greatness 10 confounded to devastated to a point of 12 love beloved 14 to have for having 65 1 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, 3 How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, 4 Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 стор.
...fears to lose. (Sonnet LXIV) The 'hungry ocean'; a usual thought. So is the word 'rage'. Or again, Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...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 impregnable... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 1955 - 196 стор.
...unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. Time becomes a symbol, almost a synonym, for mortality : Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...action is no stronger than a flower ? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 стор.
...beauty is immortalized in art. Now what would be a good poem to illustrate that? Sonnet 65 will do: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ririg days, When rocks impregnable... | |
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Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower... 
