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" Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. "
The Greatest of Literary Problems: The Authorship of the Shakespeare Works ... - Page 375
by James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 685 pages
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The Sonnets [of William Shakespeare]

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 336 pages
...(kill. xvn. Who will believe my veife in time to come, If it were fill'd with your moft high deferts ? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and fhows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in frefh numbers number all...
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The Sonnets of William Shakspere, ed. by E. Dowden, Volume 223

William Shakespeare - 1881 - 362 pages
...proposes " thinking dumb " or " praising dumb." 12. Bring a tomb. Compare Sonnet xvn. 3. It [iny verse] is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. LXXXIV. Continues the same theme. Which of us, the rival poet or I, can say more than that you are...
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Shakespeare Commentaries

Georg Gottfried Gervinus - 1883 - 1020 pages
...the beauty and truth of his young friend; yet in sonnet 17 he says, in pursuance of his former theme, Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with -your most high deserts ? But were some child of yours alive that time, You should live twice ; in it, and in my rhyme. Nevertheless,...
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Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies ..., Issue 7, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1883 - 946 pages
...men. To give away yourself keeps yourself still. And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill. Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts ? XIV. 10 art ... convert : a perfect rhyme to 3. : and BO tlescrts and parts in Sonnet XVII. Though...
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The Sonnets of William Shakespere

William Shakespeare - 1883 - 336 pages
...{kill. XVII. Who will believe my verfe in time to come, If it were fill'd with your moft high deferts ? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and fliows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in frefh numbers number all...
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Our Great Writers, Or, Popular Chapters on Some Leading Authors

Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 pages
...'half conceal' it. Shakespeare has a similar idea (Sonnet XVII.), where he speaks of his verse being ' But as a tomb, Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.' The great masters of expression have all felt this. As in the centre of your lamp's flame there is...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Rev ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1885 - 280 pages
...To give away yourself keeps yourself still ; And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skilL XVII. Who will believe my verse in time to come. If it were...tomb Which hides your life, and shows not half your part*. If I could write the beauty of your eyes, And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age...
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Bacon and Shakespeare in the Sonnets

Hezekiah Lord Hosmer - 1887 - 308 pages
...praise which may be bestowed upon him by " my verse" (the Sonnets); but "Heaven knows," he continues, "it is but as a tomb, which hides Your life, and shows not half Your parts." The meaning of this is very clear. The Sonnets, by the Key used in their composition, are intended...
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Wit, Wisdom, and Beauties of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 236 pages
...convert; Or else of thee this I prognosticate, Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date. xvrl. Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were filled with your most high deserts ? Though yet, Heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pages
...men. To give away yourself keeps yourself still; And you must live, drawn byyourownsweet skill. XVII. Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were...high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but am a tomb Which hides your life, and shows not half yourparts. If I could write the beauty of your...
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