...myself that exquisite sonnet of Shakspeare's, beginning, " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste," when the postman's horn at the gate announced the arrival of your letter. Its request...

...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 waste," I repeated aloud...

...That then I scorn to change my state with kings. XXXIX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...time's waste : Then can I drown an eye, unused to now, For precious friends hid in death's dateless1 night, And weep afresh love's long-since cancelled...

...fire." Sonnet 20. Shakspeare in a sonnet says, — " When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...wail my dear time's waste : Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night," Sonnet 22. Ten years ago, in 1849,...

...That then I scorn to change my state with kings. XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought At sixteen years, When Tarquín made a head for Borne,...dictator, Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fig unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long-since-cancell'd...

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...That then I scorn to change my state with kings. xxx. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's wiste : Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,...

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...Sonnet x\\ . — M Some of these corruptions have been silently set right bj recent editors. — Ed. " I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste ; " surely time's. Twelfth Night, ii. 5,— " But silence, like a Lucrece knife, With...

...; and * " Literature of Europe," vol. ii. p. 175. " 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 revived the idea relinquished then, and we have resolved...