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... Shakespeare Solved , 1870 , who was content to give it corruptly as he found it , and , on what authority I know not , describes it as ' attributed to Shakespeare . ' Its present ascription to the Resolute ' himself is , it must be ...
... Shakespeare Solved , 1870 , who was content to give it corruptly as he found it , and , on what authority I know not , describes it as ' attributed to Shakespeare . ' Its present ascription to the Resolute ' himself is , it must be ...
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... Shakespeare , 1845 , i , 261 , 273-281 . Mr. Massey must cast about for some other ' fitting candidate ' for identification as the ' heavy ignorance ' of Shakspeare's 78th Sonnet . Gorges ' translation of Lucan's Pharsalia , 1614 ...
... Shakespeare , 1845 , i , 261 , 273-281 . Mr. Massey must cast about for some other ' fitting candidate ' for identification as the ' heavy ignorance ' of Shakspeare's 78th Sonnet . Gorges ' translation of Lucan's Pharsalia , 1614 ...
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... about 1819 , but first publicly announced by James Boaden in The Gentleman's Magazine , Oct. 1832 , on independent discovery . See Boaden's work On the Sonnets of Shakespeare ( 1837 ) . turer , in setting forth , wisheth to Mr. W. 278 ...
... about 1819 , but first publicly announced by James Boaden in The Gentleman's Magazine , Oct. 1832 , on independent discovery . See Boaden's work On the Sonnets of Shakespeare ( 1837 ) . turer , in setting forth , wisheth to Mr. W. 278 ...
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... Shakespeare , witnes his Venus and Adonis , his Lucrece , his sugred Sonnets among his private friends , & c . ' Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems . Being his Sonnets clearly developed : with his Character drawn chiefly from his ...
... Shakespeare , witnes his Venus and Adonis , his Lucrece , his sugred Sonnets among his private friends , & c . ' Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems . Being his Sonnets clearly developed : with his Character drawn chiefly from his ...
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... Shakespeare expresses his own feelings in his own person . It is not difficult to conceive that the Editor , George ... Shakespeare's Sonnets . ' Notes and Queries , 5th S. VI , Nov. 4 , 1876 . + Mr. Garnett's Relics of Shelley , 1862 ...
... Shakespeare expresses his own feelings in his own person . It is not difficult to conceive that the Editor , George ... Shakespeare's Sonnets . ' Notes and Queries , 5th S. VI , Nov. 4 , 1876 . + Mr. Garnett's Relics of Shelley , 1862 ...
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Page 30 - Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee,—and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 39 - In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourished by :— This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Page 39 - boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang : In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in resL
Page 211 - 7 TT OW do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. •*••*• I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and
Page 97 - given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us
Page 413 - This sonnet should be compared with WC Bryant's fine stanzas To a Waterfowl, which conclude— ' He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps
Page 47 - Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring; And for they looked but with divining eyes, They had not skill enough your worth to sing : For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
Page 424 - Wordsworth's Song- at the Feast of Brougham Castle: • The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.' This and the sonnet given under cCCxx were written not later than February, 1823. They appeared in The London
Page 289 - It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.' parallels. Cp. the beginning of the 2nd Sonnet : ' When fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow, And
Page 105 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee ; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.