 HOW soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.  OBITER DICTA - 9. oldalszerző: AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1870 - 366 oldal
...: " How soon has Time, the subtle thief of youth. Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career ; But my late spring no bud or blossom strewth, Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood had arrived so near ; And... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 oldal
...oft alike both come to evil end.2 FROM THE SONNETS. ON HIS BEING ARRIVED TO THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE." How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 oldal
...and Winter once rejoiced in glory. R. BURNS 49 On his being arrived to the age of twenty-three TT OW soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! my hasting days fly on with full career, but my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. Perhaps my... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 oldal
...mate, Both them I serve, and of their train am I. II. ON HIS BEING ARRIVED TO THE AGE OF TWENTY THREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom showeth. Perhaps my... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 oldal
...Writing sonnets was a cryptic game, anyway, as the connoisseurs knew. When Milton in Sonnet VII says, "How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, / Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year," we do not know what birthday he is commemorating. Is it his twenty-third, or his twenty-fourth? The... | |
 | John Beebe - 1992 - 200 oldal
...far: How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career. But my late spring no bud or blossom show'th. 22 Among our contemporary fears of Puritanism is our suspicion that, with its unremitting... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 oldal
...VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY (189Ï-1930), Russian poet, dramatist. The cloud in trousers (tr. by George Reavey). 6 06-90). British historian. Quoled in: Peler Vansiltart, Voices 1870-1914, Introduction (1984). JOHN MILTON (1608-74), English poet. On His Having Arrived M the Age of Twenty-three. AGE AND AGING:... | |
 | Andrew V. Ettin - 1994 - 236 oldal
...life: How soon hath time the subtle thief of youth Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.18 180 THE LEAD PLATES OF THE ROM PRESS The phrase "full career," meaning at top speed, ironically... | |
 | A. Leigh DeNeef, Craufurd D. Goodwin, Craufurd D. W. Goodwin - 1995 - 364 oldal
...hath time the subtle thief of youth, Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting dayes fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th — one should also remember his more famous line from another sonnet, "They also serve who only stand... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 oldal
...was beauty's summer dead. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet on his Being Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twenti'th year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom... | |
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