 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...prose. '] AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. WHAT needs my Shakspeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...to the life thou dost behold. An Epitaph on the admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare*. What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ; - In addition to those in the folio of 1623, also reprinted in 1632. The folios of 1664 and 1685... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...the life thou dost behold. An Epitaph on t/te admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare'. What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ; ' In addition to those in the folio of 1623, also reprinted in 1632. The folios of 1664 and 1685... | |
 | John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 pages
...our Church-yard meditation is at an end. The first is to Shakspere : — '• What needs my Shakspere for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great... | |
 | William Bartholomew - 1846 - 24 pages
...wreath. CHORUS. 'Tis he ! — behold his brow by Wisdom crown'd. MERCURY. " What need hath Shakspeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or, that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of Memory, great... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...revise, before all the errors will be corrected. — JEAN PAUL. 3N 2 SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON. " What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow d reliques should be hid Under a star-y pointing pyramid ? Dear eon of memory,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...sufficiently ? What says John Milton, another glorious son of the Muse ? " What needs my Shakspeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ] Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...when these verses were published : — "A» EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIc POET, W. SHAKESPEARE. " What need my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones The labour of an age in piled stones, * Life of Shakspere, In ' Larlner's Cyclopedia • t See Book is. chap. iv. Or that his hallow'd relies... | |
 | 1913 - 686 pages
...the Second Folio, we read : An Epitaph on Ihc Admirable Dramaticke poet, W. SHAKESPEARE. What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an Age, in piled stones Or that his hallow'd Reliques should be hid Under a starre-ypointed Pyramid ? Deare Sonne of Memory,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...to the life thou dost behold. An Epitaph on the admirable Dramatic Poet, W. SHAKESPEARE.6 What needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ; Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of Memory,... | |
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WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd 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?... 
