 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 532 pages
...hid Under a star-y pointing Pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. What needs't thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and...astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easie numbers flow, and that each heart Hath... | |
 | Abraham Wivell - 1827 - 98 pages
...Under a starry — pointing pyramid? Dear Son of Memory, great heir of Fame, What nccd'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow — endeavouring Art Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder and...astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument. For whilst, to' the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow ; and that each heart Hath,... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 pages
...hid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder and...astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long monument.' [An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet William Shakspeare.] We sec by these and many other testimonies... | |
 | Abraham Wivell - 1827 - 104 pages
...thon our fancy of itself bereaving Dost make us marble with too much conceiving; And so sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die." Before I take my final leave of the public, as an author, I beg to draw their attention to a notice... | |
 | Abraham Wivell - 1827 - 430 pages
...thou our fancy of itself bereaving Dost make us marble with too much conceiving; And so sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die." Before I take my final leave of the public, as an author, I beg to draw their attention to a notice... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 522 pages
...hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? . Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou, in our wonder and...astonishment, . Hast built thyself a live-long monument, &c. &c. We see by these testimonies, and by many others which it would be easy to collect, that the... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...impression took; Then thou our faney of itself bereaving, Dost make as marble with too much conceiving; And so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Milton. CCCLXXVI. One of the ancients seeing a young man give away all his subsistence to pretended... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?' Thou in our wonder and...astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring all, The easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pages
...hath found that sad lepulchral rock, That »as the casket of heaven's richest store. M ¡Urn. Thou se sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Id. That Niobe, weeping over her children, was turned into a stone, was nothing else but that during... | |
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour 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 thou such weak witness of thy name... 
