 | Anna Maria Hall - 1858 - 342 pages
...at rest. I took from my pocket a small volume of poems; they were Shakspeare's ; I read:— " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing 1 sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste." " My dear time's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...sweet love remember'd such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. YYY 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Law and literature - 1859 - 128 pages
...might plead for justice there." " Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue." From the SONNETS. " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past," " So should that beauty which you hold in lease." ' And summer's lease hath all too short a date."... | |
 | G F. Ryan - 1860 - 360 pages
...involve the honor of God, and the eternal happiness of your soul 1" CHAP. XIII, BELLE VUE, *' When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh tbe lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste." " Be thou an example... | |
 | Charles Knight - Dramatists, English - 1860 - 576 pages
...they ra swarm in Ins poems even to deformity."* Surely, when we read those exquisite lines,— " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things pagt,"— *e think of anything else than the judge and the crier of the court; and yet this is , one... | |
 | Samuel Neil - Dramatists, English - 1861 - 140 pages
...in a retired village, where the means of extended literary research are sparse and scant; and " 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." The recent discussions concerning Shakespere have forcibly revived... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...following may be given:— CONSOLATION FROM FRIENDSHIP. I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, And with old thoughts new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye unused to flow, And weep... | |
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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... 
