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" gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow; And yet... "
The Works of Shakespeare ... - Page 156
by William Shakespeare - 1883
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. INJURIOUS TIME. Hath travel'd on to age's steepy night, And all those beauties, whereof now he's king,...
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The Poems of William Shakespeare: Comprehending Venus and Adonis, Tarquin ...

William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. Against my love shall be as I am now, With time's injurious hand crush'd and o'er-worn ; When hours...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...which goes before, n sequent toil all forwards do contend. . Nativity once iu the main of light, r.iwls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses...stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. SONNET LXI. Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to^lie weary night ? Dost I...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...to mow. And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall j-tano*, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. SONNET LXI. , Is it thy will, thy image should...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...times, in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy w.orih, despite his cruel hand. Against my love shall be as I am now, With time's injurious hand crush'd...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light,4 Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...confound ; Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,5 And delves the parallels in beauty's brow. Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth. And nothing...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 pages
...marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhime." Son. 54. '•'• Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And...stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand." Son. 60. ' " Confounding age . — — shall never cut from memory My sweet love's beauty, though my...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...confound1. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth 3, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow 3 ; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing...stand *, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. 8 — or WHE'R better they,] Whe'r for whether. The same abbreviation occurs in Venus and Adonis, and...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave, doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the ilourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's...shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hum!, LXI. Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being croivn'd Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And time...truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Shakspeare. CCCCLXV. Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little...
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