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" Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising. Haply I think on thee,— and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns... "
The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning: Ed., with Introduction ... - Page 116
edited by - 1915 - 918 pages
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Poems. Sonnets

William Shakespeare - 1884 - 424 pages
...sorrows longer, And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger. XXIX. When, in-disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast...earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. XXX. When to the sessions...
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George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, Volume 3

George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1885 - 512 pages
...— " To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes. " Wishing mo like to one more rich in hope, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most...sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings." 1876.] Trip to the...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I...brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. 29 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...
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Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal

Eugene Halton - Philosophy - 1995 - 324 pages
...bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring...earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Angelou's title to her...
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Reading Shakespeare Historically

Lisa Jardine - Drama - 1996 - 224 pages
...submerged conflict.13 The move towards intimacy in male service is vividly captured in Shakespeare's sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,...wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state for kings.14 Some years ago John Barrell drew attention to this sonnet as exemplifying and deftly manipulating...
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Reading Shakespeare Historically

Lisa Jardine - Historicism - 1996 - 228 pages
...Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my boodess cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing...wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state for kings.'4 Some years ago John Barrell drew attention to this sonnet as exemplifying and deftly manipulating...
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The Ordeal of Robert Frost: The Poet and His Poetics

Mark Richardson - Individualism in literature - 1997 - 296 pages
...Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possest, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most...brings That then I scorn to change my state with Kings. Us) 8. I wonder whether Frost incidentally puns on Shakespeare's own puns in the sonnet "Whoever hath...
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Standup Shakespeare

Ray Leslee, Kenneth Welsh - Drama - 1998 - 44 pages
...WISHING ME LIKE TO ONE MORE RICH IN HOPE, FEATURED LIKE HIM, LIKE HIM WITH FRIENDS POSSESSED, DESIRING THIS MAN'S ART, AND THAT MAN'S SCOPE, WITH WHAT I...BRINGS THAT THEN I SCORN TO CHANGE MY STATE WITH KINGS. (Musical break.) FOR THY SWEET LOVE REMEMB'RED SUCH WEALTH BRINGS THAT THEN I SCORN TO CHANGE MY STATE...
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The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays

George Santayana - Philosophy - 1998 - 236 pages
...look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, nice him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art...earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. For Shakespeare this...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoyed contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost...brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling...
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