 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...or a lecher, whether ? Bad at the best, tho' excellent in neither. THE BENEFIT OF FRIENDSHIP. \Vhen to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, Then can... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1864 - 762 pages
...which is the loss of friends—' precious friends'—very nearly related, who died long ago:— ' When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new-wail my dear time's waste : Then can I drown... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 448 pages
...stranger to thy thoughts. Though I, perchance, am vicious in my guess, 8 lago. I do beseech you,— " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought " I summon up remembrance of things past." " A Icet," says Bullokar, in his English Expositor, 1616, " is a court or law-day, holden commonly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...rernember'd, such wealth bringi, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. SONNET XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, .1 And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...or a letcher, whether ? Bad at the best, tho' excellent in neither ? THE BENEFIT OF FRIENDSHIP. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste-. Then can I drown... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...sweet love remember'd, such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste a : Then can I drown... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - Rome - 1821 - 172 pages
...melancholy that defies imitation. Shakspear has a sonnet much resembling it in idea and expression. " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, " I summon up remembrance of things past, " I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, " Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow,) " For precious friends... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
..." of authorised and lawful thoughts ?—In our poet's 30th Sonnet we find the same imagery: " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought " I summon up remembrance of things past." " Aleet, (says Bullokar, in his English Expositor, 1616,) is a court or law-day, holden commonly every... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 520 pages
...side" of authorised and lawful thoughts ?—In our poet's 30th Sonnet we find the same imagery: " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought " I summon up remembrance of things past." " Aleet, (says Bullokar, in his English Expositor, 1616,) is a court or law-day, holden commonly every... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...wouldst,when all have given him over, From death to life thou mightst him yet recover. DRAYTON. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought; And with old woes new wail my dear time's Then can 1 drown an eye,... | |
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to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh For precious friends hid in death's dateless night;" and in the thirty-first he tenderly exclaims, — " How many a holy and obsequious tear Hath dear religious love... 
