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" Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; 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... "
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays - Page 322
by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 352 pages
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...this man's art, and that man's scope With what I most enjoy contented least, Yet in these thoaghts, myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark, at break of day arising From sullen earth, to sing at heaven's gate. For thy sweet love remember'd, such wealth...
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The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier].

Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...possest; Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least! Yet in these thoughts, myself almost despising, Haply...; and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising, From sullen earth to sing at heaven's gate: SONNETS. LET me not to the marriage of true...
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The Poems of William Shakespeare: Comprehending Venus and Adonis, Tarquin ...

William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...possest ; Desiring this man's arc, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least, Yet in these thoughts, myself almost despising, • Haply I think on thee, and then my state, lake to the lark, at break of day arising From sullen earth, to sing at heaven's gate. For thy sweet...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...possess'd. Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. SONNET XXX. WHEN to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...possest ; Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least, Yet in these thoughts, myself almost despising, Haply...thee, and then my state, Like to the lark, at break of day arising From sullen earth, to sing at heaven's gate. For thy sweet love rernemb'red, such wealth...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...possest ; Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least, Yet in these thoughts, myself almost despising, Haply...thee, and then my state, Like to the lark, at break of day arising From sullen earth, to sing at heaven's gate.* For thy sweet love remember'd, such wealth...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope. — Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I...— and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate :" and again, in sonnet the thirty-seventh,...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least : Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I...though more weak in seeming ; 1 love not less, though lesi the show appear : That love is merchandis'd, whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 88, Part 2; Volume 124

Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...despising, [state, Haply J think on thee, — and then my Like to the lark at break of day arising Prom sullen earth, sings hymns at Heaven's gate : For thy...sweet love remember'd, such wealth brings, That then 1 scorn to change my state with kings." On the whole, we are fully prepared to agree with this very...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 45

English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With that I most enjoy contented least : Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings t." What manner of man might that be whose art or scope Shakspeare needed to desire ! But this is a...
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