 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. X. On Shakspcare, 1630. WHAT needs my Shakspeare for his honor'd bones The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star ypointing pyramid? Dear son of Memory, grrat heir of Fame, What... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...distracted and amaz'd. § 10. On Shakspeare. M i I.TO.V. WHAT need* my Shakspeare for his honor' J, bones The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a slarry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory ! great heir of fame !... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...rest was prose.] AN EPITAPH ox THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET W. SHAKSPEARE. WH AT needs my Shakspeare, for his honor'd bones, The labor of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear Son of memory ! great Heir of fame ! What... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1823 - 578 pages
...tourmentés de rivalités odieuses. (Vanishes.) SHADE OF MILTON appears, blind. What needs my Shakspeare for his honor'd bones, The labor of an age in piled stones i Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star y-pointing pyramid ? , • Dear son of memory... | |
 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1830 - 696 pages
...remembrance of it is every where found. Milton has expressed it in some verses : ' What needs >iy Shakspeare for his honor'd bones, The labor of an age in piled stones ; Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What... | |
 | 1838 - 722 pages
...pocket, and began to read. " ON 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 starry pointing pyramid 1 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...commonplace thought to him of whom John Milton gloriously asks : — " What needs my Shakspeare for hia honor'd bones The labor of an age in piled stones...Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a stary-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame ! What need's! thou suc/i weak witness... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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 heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...looked inwards, and found her there. 3 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 laid Under a starry-pointing pyramid ? Dear son of Memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such... | |
 | John Walker Ord - Cleveland (England) - 1845 - 434 pages
...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 heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness... | |
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WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones The labor 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? Thou... 
