 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
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 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, and,...memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph. THOMAS CAMPION From OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY [1602] THE FIRST CHAPTER, INTREATING OF... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1923 - 468 pages
...all Poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a Sonet, and when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaphe. , FINIS. A DISCOURSE ON IRISH AFFAIRS. (A fragment.) BUT the fowrthe pointe is it whiche... | |
 | William Henry Crawshaw - English literature - 1924 - 606 pages
...send you in the behal! 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. The theological literature of the time is nowhere better represented than in the writings of Richard... | |
 | George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - Debates and debating - 1925 - 638 pages
...send you on 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, your...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. Ease. A peroration which does not end abruptly and which avoids spread-eagle oratory will, to at least... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 580 pages
...This much curse I must send you in the behalfe 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." 1 One feature, in this group of writings, is indeed quite salient, namely the amplitude of aspirations... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - English essays - 1910 - 442 pages
...you in the behalf of all poets: — that while you live you live in love, and never get favor for X lacking skill of a sonnet; and when you die, your...memory / die from the earth for want of an epitaph. 68 Blockhead. ON SHAKESPEARE ON BACON IT BEN JONSON BEN JONSON, after Shakespeare the most eminent... | |
 | Philip Sidney - History - 1983 - 580 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. 122 ass's ears of Midas — Midas, wealthy king of Phrygia, whose ears were changed into an ass's because... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 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. That a courtier and soldier could write so well (among other things he wrote one of the best sonnet... | |
 | Ian Robinson - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 234 pages
...send you, in the behalfe of all Poets, that while you liue, you liue in loue, and neuer get fauour, for lacking skill of a Sonnet: and when you die, your...memory die from the earth, for want of an Epitaph. This is complex syntax rhetorically well-managed for comic effect.22 The two last members both have... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 282 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, your...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. 54 Skelton's envoy claims a similar power of erasure; his kills not with malign neglect, however, but... | |
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