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" shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? O fearful meditation ! where, alack ! Shall time's best jewel from time's chest... "
The Supplementary Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Poems and ... - Page 466
by William Shakespeare - 1852 - 525 pages
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Poetic Configurations: Essays in Literary History and Criticism

Lowry Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 333 pages
...than a flower? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong but Thne decays? O fearful meditation where, alack, Shall Tune/s best jewel from lime/s chest he hid? Or...
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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare: With an Introduction and ...

William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...action is no stronger than a flower? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are...Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? 0, none, unless...
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Time in Language

Wolfgang Klein - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 264 pages
...did not discuss this question; but it will be taken up in chapter 11 below. 4 Time structure 0 how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful...stout Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays. (Shakespeare, Sonset LXV) 4.1 INTRODUCTION The standard picture of tense and aspect assumes that tense...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...than a flower? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor...Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back, Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? 0, none, unless...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...action is no stronger than a flower? 5 O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are...but time decays? O fearful meditation! where, alack, 10 Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid, Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back,...
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Shakespearean Narrative

R. Rawdon Wilson - Drama - 1995 - 322 pages
...not unimaginable: O how shall summers' honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? The personification of Time is clear enough since it is, after all, a normal figure in Renaissance...
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The Zero Fallacy and Other Essays in Neoclassical Philosophy

Charles Hartshorne - Philosophy - 1997 - 284 pages
...power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful...stout Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays? In this matchless genius's hands phonetic aspects of words reinforce their metaphorical or literal...
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The Zero Fallacy and Other Essays in Neoclassical Philosophy

Charles Hartshorne - Philosophy - 1997 - 276 pages
...power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful...stout Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays? In this matchless genius's hands phonetic aspects of words reinforce their metaphorical or literal...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Court of Navarre

David Honneyman - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...be expected. In Shakespeare's Sonnets we find numerous similar cases, eg Sonnet 65: ...the wrackful siege of battering days When rocks impregnable are not so stout Nor gates of steel so strong... Or again in Sonnet 60: And delves the parallels in beauty's brow. Here we have not only military imagery,...
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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Jonathan Dollimore - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 420 pages
...than a flower? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays? (Sonnet 6¿) The most obvious reason why the youth is urged to reproduce is in order to perpetuate...
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