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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. "
Five minutes daily readings of poetry, selected by H.L.S. Lear - Page 219
by Five minutes daily readings - 1882 - 391 pages
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Latin proverbs and quotations: With translations and parallel passages and a ...

Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...paly ashes." SHAKS. Tempus fugit. — Time flies. " Time rolls his ceaseless course." SCOTT. " Like as waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end." Tempus lenit odium. — Time softens animosity. " Time is anger's medicine. Tempus omnia revelat. —...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint: Reprinted in the Orthography ...

William Shakespeare - Love poetry, English - 1609 - 98 pages
...admiring praife. 60 T Ike as the waues make towards the pibled more, •*— 'So do our minuites haften to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before, In fequent toile all forwards do contend. Natuity once in the maine of light. E Crawls Crawles to maturity,...
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Lettice Lisle

Lady Frances Parthenope Verney - 1870 - 384 pages
...as was expected of her. CHAPTER IX. THERE'S NO SMOKE, BUT THERE'S FIRE. " Like as the waves make to the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each taking place of that which went before, In sequent toil, all forward do contend." — SHAKSPEARE :...
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Handbook to government situations: or, The queen's Civil service considered ...

Civil service - 1871 - 264 pages
...derivations of — illico, illicet, nequam, denique, sestertius, sodes. Translate into Latin Ekgiacs : — Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...goes before In sequent toil all forwards do contend, And Time that gave doth now his gifts confound ; Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves...
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, Volume 1

Sophocles - Greek drama (Tragedy) - 1871 - 524 pages
...on with full career :' Shakespeare, Sonnet 60, ' Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, I So do our minutes hasten to their end ; | Each changing...before, | In sequent toil all forwards do contend.' rpo^ot/t would mean, ' Not many turns of the sun's chariot-wheel.' (v oî<ri ТШУ <r£>v ai/Toy ек...
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The Treasury of Literature and Art: a Selection from the Best Writers

Treasury - 1872 - 166 pages
...hire a guide for the next stage, which brought him to the city of Chalons-surMarne. TIME. —SMOLLETT. 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...
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The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Shira Wolosky Weiss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 248 pages
...unsurprisingly, is as great a master of meter as of other elements in the poetic medium. His Sonnet 60 begins: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. The expectation is often syllables to a line, with five beats in an accented pattern of unstressed/...
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In America: A Novel

Susan Sontag - Fiction - 2001 - 402 pages
...something happened that was mildly confounding. Maryna lifted her arms and declaimed in her warm alto tone: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. And for a few moments I didn't realize that she was reciting in English. I can't say what I thought...
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The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations

Martin H. Manser - Religion - 2001 - 524 pages
...ripe, /And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; / And thereby hangs a tale. William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end. William Shakespeare No matter what a man does, no matter how successful he seems to be in any field,...
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Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets: A History of Technology

Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell - History - 2001 - 596 pages
...struck twelve when I did send the nurse In half an hour she promised to return. (Romeo and Juliet) Like the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. (Sonnet 60) He can be guilty of a flagrant anachronism, in horology as in other matters: Peace! Count...
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