 | Philip R. Hardie - 2002 - 424 pages
...literature. Shakespeare's sonnet 60 is in these respects the classic statement of Renaissance Ovidianism: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...Yet do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. Sonnet 19 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave, doth now his... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 240 pages
...1986), in ascribing authority to the 1609 order. educated Elizabethan reader would have recognized, Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...goes before; In sequent toil all forwards do contend. (Sonnet 60, 1-4) is a version of But looke As every wave dryves other foorth, and that that commes... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...II, v, v, 42-60). Time is a mysterious continuum within which all nature is contained and limited: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. (60) 'swift-footed Time' (19), 'his swift foot' (65), Time's 'continual haste' (123). Slow or fast,... | |
 | Ted Grant, Alan Woods - 2002 - 270 pages
...this one which vividly conveys a sense of the restless movement of time: Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their...place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forward do contend. The irreversibility of time does not only exist for living beings. Not only humans,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 768 pages
...the couplet is aware of how fragile its oplimism is. 60 Like as the waves make towards the pe66led shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes hefore, lu sequem toil all forwards do comend. Nativity, once in the main of light, , Crawls to maturity,... | |
 | Michael Dirda - 2004 - 340 pages
...following sonnet — not identified as Shakespeare's, though I guessed he was its "onlie begetter": "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore/ So do our minutes hasten to their end. . . ." My kind of poetry. For some reason, that morning I felt especially smart-alecky, even a little... | |
 | Simon Callow - 2007 - 367 pages
...do our MINUTES hasten to their end' - a false apposition and an energy rundown. The moment one says: 'Like as the waves make TOWARDS THE PEBBLED SHORE, So do our minutes HASTEN TO THEIR END', the meaning becomes clear and the poem starts to move. Giving the metaphor its life is the secret of... | |
 | Salley Vickers - 2003 - 326 pages
...who had made what felt like true love on the same spot just a month before. Life as the waves mafe towards the pebbled shore, /So do our minutes hasten to their end . . . Tve been telling myself travesty isn't as odd as all that. I mean, look at Shakespeare.' 'He's... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, 192 ' So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing...Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his... | |
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. 
