 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pagine
...context. I commence, however, with a complete poem, in which the writer persuades his friend to marry. " 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 lies,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 370 pagine
...context. I commence, however, with a complete poem, in which the writer persuades his friend to marry. " 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 lies,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pagine
...context. I commence, however, with a complete poem, in which the writer persuades his friend to marry. " 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 beine; asked where all thy beauty lies,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 396 pagine
...youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed of small worth held. Then being asked where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; To say within thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. o How much more praise deserved thy... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pagine
...only makes it mine. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. [Born, 1304. Died, UK.] FROM HIS SONNETS. SONNET II. WHEJI lives when beauty dies.] THE SELF-BANISHED. IT gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held ; Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 338 pagine
...niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pagine
...gazed on now, Will he a tattered weed of small worth held : Then, heing asked where all thy heauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days ; To...shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy heauty's use If thou couldst answer, — " This fair child of mine Shall sum my count,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pagine
...deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter M weed of small worth held ; Then being ask'd where...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... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 pagine
...heart." One of these exquisite compositions is addressed to his friend, persuading him to marry : " 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 lies... | |
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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... 
