 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pàgines
...so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...this thy body's end? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servants loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;... | |
 | James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 pàgines
...so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease. Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess. Eat up thy...dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more. So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men. And death once dead, there's no more dying then. Far from... | |
 | Richard Danson Brown - 1999 - 312 pàgines
...the sonnet beautifully communicates the poet's sense of the accumulated waste of his different loves: Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And...dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead there's no more dying then." The poet's... | |
 | James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 pàgines
...reversing typical siege tactics, urging the besieged soul to starve the body in order to banquet itself: Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And...of dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more. (9-12) Outward fasting is inward feasting.6 This moralized anorexia, familiar from medieval mystical... | |
 | Richard Danson Brown - 1999 - 308 pàgines
...poet's sense of the accumulated waste of his different loves: Then, soul, live thou upon thy servants loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy...dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead there's no more dying then." The poet's... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pàgines
...ordinary course of nature is seasonable? Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12, 27 (2nd century) 1 1 So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. William Shakespeare, Sonnet, 146 12 Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 656 pàgines
...another of great singularity that makes the close of a Sonnet in this Poet's collection . . . : 'So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.' [Sonnet cxlvi.] — DELITJS (Jahrbuch, vii, 154): If this passage be taken in connection with the rest... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pàgines
...to the point: Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there 's no more dying then. (Sonnet cxlvi) But we have only to remember the joys of life to find these,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 260 pàgines
...so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: So shah thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. The lady... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pàgines
...so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy...dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more: So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. — William... | |
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Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion... 
