| Irving Babbitt, Van Wyck Brooks, William Crary Brownell, Ernest Augustus Boyd, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Henry Louis Mencken, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Joel Elias Spingarn, George Edward Woodberry - American literature - 1924 - 342 pages
...death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labors For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute ? Why does yon fellow falsify highways, And put his life between the judge's lips,... | |
| Irving Babbitt - American literature - 1924 - 342 pages
...death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labors For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute? Why does yon fellow falsify highways, And put his life between the judge's lips,... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - Poets, English - 1926 - 512 pages
...herself ? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewitching minute ? l Why does yon fellow falsify high-ways And put his...between the judge's lips, To refine such a thing, keeps horse and men To beat their valours for her ? 1 This is not, I take it, one of the poet's irregular... | |
| Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 666 pages
...1 Addressing his betrothed's skull, he says : Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships, For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute? Why does yon fellow falsify highways, And put his life between the judge's lips,... | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot - Criticism - 1928 - 206 pages
...death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee ? For thee does she undo herself ? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute ? Why does yon fellow falsify highways. And put his life between the judge's lips,... | |
| William Thomson Hastings - American essays - 1928 - 454 pages
...death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute? Why does yon fellow falsify highways, And put his life between the judge's lips,... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships, For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute? Why does yon fellow falsify highways, And put his life between the judge's lips,... | |
| M. C. Bradbrook - Drama - 1980 - 284 pages
...language is extraordinarily complex. Doth the silk worm expend her yellow labours For thee? for thee doth she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships...between the judge's lips To refine such a thing? keep men and horses To beat their valours for her? (in. v. 758") The images of beauty transmuted into wealth... | |
| Wendy Griswold - History - 1986 - 328 pages
...he holds the skull of his mistress and asks, Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold...life between the judge's lips To refine such a thing, keeps horse and men To beat their valors for her? Surely we're all mad people, and they Whom we think... | |
| Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...first, but because it is more orthodox: Vindice: Does the silkworm expend her yellow labors For thee? for thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold...ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewitching minute? . . . Does every proud and self-affecting dame Camphire her face for this? and grieve her Maker In... | |
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