 Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd,...  Lectures on the English Poets - Page 305by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1858 - 366 pages
...whispered itself to Pompey's heart, as he saw the billowy war advancing upon him in his old age — " The painful warrior, famoused for fight After a thousand...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd." To say the truth, in this instance as in so many others, the great moral of the retribution escapes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...however, whether the lines did not originally run thus : — " The painful warrior, famoused for worth, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour razed forth, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd." We do not, however, think it necessary to disturb... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...joy in that I honor most. Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread, But as the marigold in the sun's eye ; And in themselves their pride lies...thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd : Then happy I, that love and am belovM,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1894 - 1074 pages
...with Shakespeare : The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. And Tyndall was not minded to be forgot; at any rate, for that reason. 6 Jan. acquiring them,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1896 - 1040 pages
...the painful •warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the hoke of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled ? To some other writer and to a remoter time it must be left to deal with that part of Lord... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 172 pages
...fortune of such triumph bars, Unlocked for joy in that I honor most. Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's...their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for might, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the book of honor rased quite, And all the rest... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...fortune of such triumph bars Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most. Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd: Then happy I, that love and am beloved Where I may not remove nor be removed. William Shakespeare Epitaph... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 256 pages
...aristocrat's mercurial eye often conveys the suitor's doom in the Sonnets: Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread, But as the marigold at the sun's...lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. [SON 25] Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass, And scarcely greet me with that sun thine... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1992 - 220 pages
...triumph bars Unloo\'d for joy in that I honour most; Creat Princes favourites their fair leaves spread, 5 But as the marigold at the sun's eye, And in themselves...for fight After a thousand victories once foil'd, 10 Is from the boo\ of honour razed forth, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd: Then happy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...fortune of such triumph bars, Unlookt for joy in that I honour most. Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd: Then happy I, that love and am beloved Where I may not remove nor be removed. 26 Lord of my love, to... | |
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