 | Kristin Linklater - 1992 - 236 pages
...pentameter requires and the importance of the line-endings demand. It is all too easy to get by with: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea But...their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a piea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey breath ho\d out Against... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...17 Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor Boundless Sea (LXV) 叩血血1S 吐吐仿p 。 扣 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Oh, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 212 pages
...to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. 65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,... | |
 | Wolfgang Klein - 1994 - 264 pages
...chapter, we did not discuss this question; but it will be taken up in chapter 11 below. 4 Time structure O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against...stout Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays. (Shakespeare, Sonnet LXV) 4.1 INTRODUCTION The standard picture of tense and aspect assumes that tense... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. 64 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 196 pages
...be - I wish to be. 1 4 Save that - except that. 1 4 to die - if I were to die. This form is i Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? 5 O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 1995 - 604 pages
...denouement poses the same rhetorical question Shakespeare posed in his great sixty-fifth sonnet: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea But...a plea Whose action is no stronger than a flower? The inset's scenario replicates this sonnet's answer: beauty is threatened by a harsh reality that... | |
 | Charles Hartshorne - 1997 - 276 pages
...hard consonants. Consider the following quatrains from one of Shakespeare's wonderful sonnets: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea But...stout Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays? In this matchless genius's hands phonetic aspects of words reinforce their metaphorical or literal... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2001 - 420 pages
...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, But...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong... | |
 | Kenneth Koch - 1999 - 324 pages
...as knowledge — this quatrain of a Shakespeare sonnet about the destructions of time, for example: O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? (SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 65) Among the experiences these lines give the reader are "summer," "honey breath,"... | |
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Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays ? O fearful meditation ! where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid ? Or what strong hand can hold... 
