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" Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at... "
English Poems - Page 58
edited by - 1908 - 415 pages
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...nightly make griefs length seem stronger. SONNET XXIX. WHEN in disgrace with fortune and men's eye*, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. SONNET XXX. WHEN to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, < Wishing me like to one mure rich in hope, FeaturM like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. SONNET XXX. WH«N to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I...
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Characters of Shakespear's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...enjoy contented least: Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee,—and then my state • • . (Like to the lark at break...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." NOVELTY. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; I love not less, though less the...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring...That then I scorn to change my state with kings.'' NOVELTY. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; 1 love not less, though lesi the...
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Characters of Shakespear's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 pages
...cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." NOVELTY: ': " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; I love not less, though less the...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least : Vet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." NOVELTY. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming , 1 love not less, though less the...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 45

1835 - 564 pages
...like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With that I most enjoy contented least : Yet in these thoughts...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings t." What manner of man might that be whose art or scope Shakspeare needed to desire ! But this is a...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." This melancholy feeling is indulged again in one or two instances afterwards, on which account we shall...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." This melancholy feeling is indulged again in one or two instances afterwards, on which account we shall...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. LET me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one : So shall those blots...
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