And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state... The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes - Page 99by William Shakespeare - 1812Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 pages
...hand defaced The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage : When I have...kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store : When I have seen such interchange of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 606 pages
...seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, • I in M i in and chopp'd — ] We preserve here the old orthography, although btaten was perhaps... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down razed, And hrass eternal slave to mortal rage : When 1 have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 516 pages
...Distempered means disordered, sick ; being only in that state which foreruns or produces diseases. * 'When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil uin of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store, U heii I have seen such interchange... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...defaced The rich proud cost of out- worn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased , And brass eternal , slave to mortal rage : When I...kingdom of the shore , And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss , and loss with store : When I have seen such interchange of... | |
| Historical, philosophical, and humorous reflections - 1848 - 56 pages
...passages of time Thus mournfully the mighty spirit spoke — A Druid prophet of his native oak : — " When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state...to decay. Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate."^ No. XI.— NOVEMBER. THE Senate gathered : motley was the view Of Thompsons, Cobdens, and the free-trade... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...hand defae'd, The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd. And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage ; When I have...the shore. And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Inereasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When I have seen such interehange of state. Or state... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...defae'•i. The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I sec down-rasV. And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage : When I have...of the shore. And the firm soil win of the wat'ry mam. Increasing store with loss, and loss with store . When I have seen such interehange of state.... | |
| Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...seen the hungry ocean Rain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, &c. " Watery main " is here an expressive pleonasm in contrast to " firm soil," which justifies the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 484 pages
...hand defaced The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage ; When I have...Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When 1 have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus... | |
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