| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...face divine, Like one with arrow shot, in laughter's place, Maugre my heart, I joy in my disgrace. I o f s In Time's great periods, shall return to nought ; The fairest states have fatal nights and days. I... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...thought, and uniform terseness ol expression. The reader may judge for himself from a lew examples : " I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought In Time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I... | |
| John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...(quires clos'd which dead, dead sighs but breath) Joy on this living book to read my death. SONNET. I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In Time's great periods shall return to nought; That fairest states have fatal nights and days ; I... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1878 - 498 pages
...become the seat of majesty, And make, no doubt, us happy b\ his leign. SHAKSPEARE. LATIN VERSE. I kno\v that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is wrought In time's great periods shall return to nought, That fairest states have fatal nights and days,... | |
| Herbert Edwin Clarke - 1879 - 164 pages
...BELFAST BEHERAL / know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought In Time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muses' heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds,... | |
| Herbert Edwin Clarke - 1879 - 170 pages
...SONGS IN EXILE SONGS :N EXILE otfjet HE CLARKJL__ MARCUS WARD & CO. LONDON & BELFAST MDCCCLXXIX. 0 I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought In Time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I... | |
| Charles Dunham Deshler - English poetry - 1879 - 334 pages
...treatment, which I shall leave you to trace out at your leisure. Meantime, listen to Drummond : " 'I know that all beneath the Moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought In Time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...unter einer Glasglocke aufbewahrt. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY '. I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by...brought, la time's great periods shall return to nought. I know that all the muse's heavenly layes, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle... | |
| James Hain Friswell - Authors - 1880 - 380 pages
...adopted Sir Philip Sidney as his model. The following is one of Drummond's exquisite sonnets : — I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought In time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I... | |
| David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 506 pages
...One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more : Death, thou shall die. cxn T KNOW that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, 1585^1649 In Time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and... | |
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