 My Shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.  Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life - Page 97by William Shakespeare - 1847Full view - About this book
 | James Spear Loring - 1853 - 746 pages
...Campbell, on the Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey : " My Shakspeare, rise ! I will not lodge tbee by Chaucer or Spenser ; or bid Beaumont lie A little...live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give." JOSIAH QUINCY. JULY 4, 1826. FOR THE CITY AUTHORITIE?. THIS second oration of the senior Quincy breathes... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1853 - 742 pages
...Sprague, beside that of Thomas Campbell, on the Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey : " My Shakspeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser...alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wita to read, and praise to give." JOSIAH QUINCY. JULY 4, 1826. FOR THE CITY AUTHORITIES. THIS second... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further off, to make thee room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art...mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great but disproportion'd Muses : E For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pages
...were wrongly attributed ; " Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer; and, rare Beaumont, lie A little further, to make thee a room...thee so, my brain excuses, — I mean, with great but disproportion'd Muses; For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 668 pages
...were wrongly attributed ; " Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer; and, rare Beaumont, lie A little further, to make thee a room...read, and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my braia excuses, — I mean, with great but disproportion'd Muses; For if I thought my judgment were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...therefore, will begin: — Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakspeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser...thee so, my brain excuses ; I mean, with great but disproportion'd muses : For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...emulation to worship. Soul of the age ! Th' applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! My Shakspeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser,...live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give ***** He was not of an a<?e, but for all time. 38 THE INDICATOR. [OHAP CHAPTER XI. Angling. THE anglers... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 pages
...will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further off, to make thee room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art...mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great but disproportion'd Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1862 - 458 pages
...ill-feeling having existed between the two dramatists — " Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise ! I...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give." These verses prove that Basse's elegy was well known as early as the year 1623 ; but a copy of it was... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 pages
...therefore will begin : — Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage ; My Shakspeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser...And we have wits to read, and praise to give. That 1 not mix thee so, my brain excuses ; I mean, with great but disproportion'd muses : For, if I thought... | |
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