 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...stones, Or diat his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory,41 great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness...built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart 10 Hath from the leaves... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. What need'st...built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th'shame of slow-endeavoring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves of... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...for Milton, as we know from the sonnet "On Shakespeare": For whilst to th'shame of slow-endeavoring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalu'd Book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took, Then thou our fancy of itself bereaving,... | |
 | William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...an age in piled Stones, Or what his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a Star-y pointing Pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st...name! Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.... And so Sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie That Kings for such a Tomb... | |
 | Owen Barfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 236 pages
...work on this volume better than these lines from that very poet that Barfield so loved and respected: Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Encino, California GBT Owen Barfield: A Life in Thought In an essay on his lifelong friend CS Lewis,... | |
 | Catherine Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 292 pages
...of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st...that each heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book Those Delphic lines with deep impression took, Then thou our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid?0 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st...built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart0 10 Hath from the leaves... | |
 | Sharon Achinstein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 330 pages
...as a kind of monument - think of Herrick's "His Poetry His Pillar" or Milton's sonnet on Shakespeare ("Thou in our wonder and astonishment/ Hast built thyself a livelong Monument"); the poetic inscriptions on the stones of tombs rework that essential link between poetry and commemoration.... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...pyramid to ensepulchre him since (in what are, unfortunately, the least vigorous lines in the poem), "Thou in our wonder and astonishment / Hast built thyself a livelong monument" (F 2:346). Derived from Wordsworth or not, Emersonian "benefactors" are those who, having been thankful... | |
 | Peter Jensen - Fiction - 2009 - 238 pages
...6. Two 4 Sonnet Sequences as Triptych 172 Secrets of the Sonnets Shakespeare's Code By Peter Jensen "Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?" "Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving [.]" From John... | |
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WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?... 
