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
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thec disproportion'd muses: For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
| Max Moltke, Shakespeare-museum - 1881 - 344 pages
...delight, the wonder of our »tilge, My Shakespear, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Speueer; or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee...so, my brain excuses; — I mean, with great, but disproportion^! Mnecs; For, if I thought my judgment were of years, 1 should commit thee surely with... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 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... | |
| John Milton - 1882 - 438 pages
...Jonson's famous Eulogy on Shakespeare, prefixed to the First Folio : — " My Shakespeare, rise ! 1 will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give." 4. " star-ypointing" ie pointing to the stars. The word is hardly a correct formation, as the prefix... | |
| John Milton - 1882 - 448 pages
...Jonson's famous Eulogy on Shakespeare, prefixed to the First Folio : — " My Shakespeare, rise I 1 will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give." 4. " star-ypointing, "ie pointing to the stars. The word is hardly a correct formation, as the prefix... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room1: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive...thee so my brain excuses, — I mean with great, but disproportioned Muses ; For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama - 1883 - 1164 pages
...fortune of them, or the need. I, therefore, will begin : — Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise ! I...while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, or praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses ; I mean, with great but disproportion'd... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie 20 A little further off, to make thee room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art...thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but disproportioncd Muses ; For if I thought my judgment wore of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1885 - 528 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 disproportioned Muses ; For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
| Mabel C. (Bradley) Birchenough - 1886 - 106 pages
...Stratford-on-Avon to the Abbey; the idea was soon abandoned, but it gave rise to Bee Jonson's famous lines :— My Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer...without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book dotn live, And we have wits to read and praise to give. And to Milton's protest :— What needs my... | |
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