 I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that...  The Retrospective Review - Page 551824Full view - About this book
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...must send you in the behalf of all poets ; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and when you die,...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph. SELDEN'S TABLE-TALK. To MASTER JOHN SELDEN. " 1 yield, I yield. The matter of your praise Flows in... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...much curse I must send you in the behalf of all poets ; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sonnet ;...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." Ye who would avert such doom, read Spenser and Milton, and Burns and Wordsworth ! While upon the subject... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...must send you in behalf of all poets ; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and when you die,...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph." VOL VOL 1' The Arcadia, though not-eo uniformly pleasing and satisfactory, has always been considered... | |
 | 1843 - 600 pages
...must send you in behalf of all poets ; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet, and when you die, your...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph." The name of Sir Philip Sidney deserves to rank high among those who have contributed to the strength... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1849 - 256 pages
...lend you in the behalf of all poets,— that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and when you die,...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. XII. BURTON'S "ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY." THE Anatomy of Melancholy is a book oftener mentioned than read,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literature - 1852 - 330 pages
...Thus much curse I must lend you in the behalf of all poets, that while you live you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." Whenever these assailants come to close quarters, and give us a clue to their meaning, it will be found... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Poetics - 1852 - 310 pages
...Thus much curse I must lend you in the behalf of all poets, that while you live you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." Whenever these assailants come to close quarters, and give us a clue to their meaning, it will be found... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
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 | William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 286 pages
...lend you in the behalf of all poets, — that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and when you die,...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. XII. BURTON'S " ANATOMY or MELANCHOLY." THE Anatomy of Melancholy is a book oftener mentioned than... | |
 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 490 pages
...must send you in the behalf of all Poets, that while you live you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and when you die,...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." " In this luminous criticism and effusion of poetic feeling," remarks D' Israeli, " Sidney has introduced... | |
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