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" 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 watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state,... "
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems - Page 868
by William Shakespeare - 1883
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage ; When I have...taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come, and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears...
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The book of sonnets, ed by A.M. Woodford

A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen...taught me thus to ruminate— That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose, But weep to have that which it...
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 338 pages
...defaced The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage ; — When I have...me thus to ruminate ; — That time will come, and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 594 pages
...defaced The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage : When I have...taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 pages
...defaced The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage : When I have...taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down razed, And hrass eternal slave to mortal rage : When 1 have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom...taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 606 pages
...defaced The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage : When I have...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, • I in M i in and chopp'd — ] We preserve here the old orthography, although btaten was perhaps...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 596 pages
...defaced The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage : When I have...interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, Rum hath taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come and take my love away. This thought is...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...defaced The rich proud cost of out- worn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased , And brass eternal , slave to mortal rage : When I have...interchange of state , Or state itself confounded to decay, Ituin haih taught me thus to ruminate — That time will come and take my love away. This thought is...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1889 - 562 pages
...thief. _In Sonnet Ixiv. the poet evinces his familiarity with the accidents of a crumbling coast :— When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on...store; When I have seen such interchange of state, &c. " Watery main " is here an expressive pleonasm in contrast to " firm soil," which justifies the...
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