 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 wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...  Notes and Queries - Page 1251889Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1913 - 504 pages
...choleric temper,' as a touch added by Shakespeare to Plutarch's account. 7. aduantage on] Compare ' — I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore.' — Sonnet, Ixiv, 6. 8. Tooke it too eagerly : his Soldiers fell to spoyle] CRAIK (p. 369) : That is,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1913 - 514 pages
...fiery, choleric temper,' as a touch added by Shakespeare to Plutarch's account. 7. aduantage on] Compare '—I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore.'—Sonnet, briv, 6. 8. Tooke it too eagerly: his Soldiers fell to spoyle] CRAIK (p. 369): That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1914 - 268 pages
..."the Bottome where Tame and Ancre runne." 109. With like advantage] Cf. Sonnets, Ixiv. 5, 6 : — " I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore.'7 t10. Gelding] curtailing, as in Love's Labour's Lost, ui 149. 110. opposed continent]oppos\tcbaxA..... | |
 | George Wyndham - 1919 - 502 pages
...doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.' LXIV. 5, 6. ' When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore.' LXV. 1-4. ' Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1922 - 48 pages
...OUTWORN BURIED AGE, 'HEN SOMETIME LOFTY OWERS I SEE DOWN RASED, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state,... | |
 | Arthur Acheson, Edward Thurlow Leeds - 1922 - 714 pages
...buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, (Thorpe And the firm soil'win of the watery main, Uiv.) Increasing store with loss and loss with store... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1925 - 854 pages
...have teen the same become dry land. This passage becomes, under Shakespeare's hand : When / Tinve teen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm toil win of the watery main Increasing store with loss, and loss with store ; When / have teen such... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1925 - 846 pages
...was, / have tun the same become dry land. This passage becomes, under Shakespeare's hand : When / hart seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm toil win of the watery main Increasing store with loss, and lose with store ; When / have teen such... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1928 - 236 pages
...tear Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye Where summer's breath their masked buds discloses When I have seen the hungry Ocean gain Advantage on the Kingdom of the shore O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe And buds of majoram... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 pages
...outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of die shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing Store with loss and loss with store;... | |
| |
