 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
 | Longman (Firm) - Readers - 1897 - 296 pages
...HE HATH LEFT US. SOUL of the age ! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage ! My Shakspeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser,...live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those nights... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 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...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... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 pages
...BELO VBD MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US SOUL of the age ! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage ! My Shakespeare rise ! I...mix 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 548 pages
...Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little farther to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 610 pages
...rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little farther to make thce a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art...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... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 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 disproportioned Muses: For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...fortune of them ; or the need ! I therefore will begin. Soul of the Age! The applause, delight, and wonder, of our Stage ! My SHAKESPEARE, rise! I will...thee so, my brain excuses ; I mean, with great, but disproportioned, Muses : For, if I thought my judgement were of years, I should commit thee, surely,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 546 pages
...Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little farther to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without...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... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - Elegiac poetry - 1900 - 330 pages
...will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little farther off, to make thee room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art...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... | |
 | 1902 - 868 pages
...many a splendid echo. It resounded in Bet» Jonson's lines of 1023: — Shakespeare in Oral Tradition. My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer,...live And we have wits to read and praise to give. Milton wrote a few years later, in 1630, how Shakespeare "sepulchred" in "the monument" of his writings,... | |
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