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" When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I... "
The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning - Page 118
by Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 918 pages
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...kind, and true, have often liv'd alone, Wbjcb three, till now, never kept scat in one. SONNET CVI. WHEN in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring; And, for they look'd hut with divining eyes, They had not skill...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...liv'd alone, Which three, till now, never kept seat in one. SONNET CVI. in the chronicle of wasted lime I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty...master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring; And, for they look'd but with divining eyes. They had not skill...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...chronicle of wasted time, I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhime, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then,...have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now." Son. 106. It is a striking proof of the poetical inferiority of the few sonnets which Shakspeare has...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 45

English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...mistress, indicates most interestingly the chivalrous turn of Shakspeare's taste and reading — " When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now !"1T Shakspeare was ever beautifully unenvious. He alludes more than once to one or two of his contemporaries,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...affords. Fair, kind, and true, have often liv'd alone, Which three, till now, never kept seat in one. CVI. When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow 9, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now '. 1 So your sweet...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knighU, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand,...master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring ; And, for they look'd but with divining eyes, They had not skill...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhime, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then...master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring; And, for they look'd but with divining eyes, They had not skill...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhime, ; In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then...such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises arc but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring ; And, for they look'd but with divining eyes,...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...and true, have often liv'd alone, Which three, till now, never kept seat in one. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. WHEN in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring ; And, for they look'd but with divining eyes, They had not skill...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...often liv'd alone, 80 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. WHEN in the chronicle of wasted time I see de9criptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful...master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring ; And, for they look'd but with divining eyes, They had not skill...
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