 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being...  The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare and the Earl of Surrey - Pàgina 138per William Shakespeare, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, George Gilfillan, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey.) - 1856 - 316 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Shakespeare - 1865
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gif1 confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow... | |
 | James Hird - 1866 - 173 pàgines
...inmost secrets of the heart ? Does not the Great Eternal know Who acts or saint's or sinner's part ? " Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And...truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow." SIIAKSPERE. HOW short's the allotted time of man ! How fleeting his appointed day ! A momentary breath,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866
...that which goes before in sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, crooked...doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the nourish set on youth and delves the parallels in beauty's brow, feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1866 - 603 pàgines
...forwards do contend: Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time...doth now his gift confound : Time doth transfix the nourish set on youth, And delves the parallels on Beauty's brow; Feeds on the rarities of Nature's... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pàgines
...changing place with that which goes before ; In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Sh. Son. 60. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And...truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Si. Son, 60. O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 560 pàgines
...that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish get on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow ; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 506 pàgines
...serve up his soup in a basket. 1. 1- Kin HUNT — From the Italian. THOUGHT. — (See MIND.) TIME. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And...truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. SilAKM'K ' »g. The greatest schemes that human wit can forge, Or bold ambition dares to put in practice,... | |
 | Civil service - 1871
...that which goes before In sequent toil all forwards do contend, And Time that gave doth now his gifts confound ; Time doth transfix the flourish set on...delves the parallels in beauty's brow ; Feeds on the vanities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow ; And yet to times in hope,... | |
 | Sophocles - 1871
...Sonnet 90 : ' Nativity, once in the main of light, | Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, | Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, | And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.' * 1193. та <rAv TOI irapa&iYpl Schol. rV aov ßlov . . vofáSfifim ¡\ау, oiiSíva IMKfipíCoj... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 240 pàgines
...that which goes before ; In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light* Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked...truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. In another sonnet Shakespeare exquisitely images his own last days, as he imagines them. That time... | |
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