 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pagine
...niggarding : Pity the world, or else this glutton be To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig...all the treasure of thy lusty days; To say within thy own deep-sunken eyes, Where an all-eating shame and thriftless praise How much more praise deserv'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pagine
...this glutton be To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. When forty winters shall besiege thy And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gaz'd on now, Will be a latter'd weed of small worth held : Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pagine
...the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. SONNET II. W«IM forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep...eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. Ho* much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, If thou conld'st answer — " This fair child of mine... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pagine
...niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. SONNET IL forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep...Where all the treasure of thy lusty days ; To say, nitbin tbine own deep-sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. Ho» much more... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pagine
...shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held...treasure of thy lusty days — To say " within thine own deep sunken eyes," Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise ; How much more praise deserv'd thy... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 432 pagine
...— that only makes it mine. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. BORN 1564.— DIED 1616. FROM HIS SONNETS. SONNET 2. WHEN forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig...in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held ; Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pagine
...beauty's brow ;] Renders what was before even and smooth, rough and uneven. So, in the second Sonnet : ' When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, ' And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field." Agai , in the 19th Sonnet: ' Swift-footed time, ' O carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow, '... | |
 | 1835 - 564 pagine
...upon him. When he was little past forty, he says to his friend, in evident allusion to himself — " When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field*." — in another he speaks of his mistress — " Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pagine
...niggarding, Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and dice. II. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig...in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held: Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,... | |
 | 1835 - 746 pagine
...How easy and vigorous are the two first lines, and how ingenious and striking are the two last ! " When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig...in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, "Will be a tattered weed of small worth held. Then being: asked where all thy beauty... | |
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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gaz'd on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held ; Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy... 
