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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. "
Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners: Together with Appendices - Page 183
1870
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...matcheth not thy show, The toil is this, that thou dost common £row> INJURIOUS TIME. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...sure I am, the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. LX. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes...before ; In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light 9, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 45

English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...confessions. In one sonnet he exhibits to his friend the picture of his life, in hours of labour " hastening to their end"— " Each changing place with that which...before In sequent toil all forwards do contend*." and on another occasion he affectiugly complains of being " deharr'd the benefit of rest," for that " day's...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...I am, the wits of former days, To subjects worse have given admiring praise. LX. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...practices, and the manner how they are to be carried on. — Montaigne. CCCCLXIV. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being croivn'd Crooked eclipses 'gainst...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...and practices, and the manner how they are to be carried on.—Montaigne. CCCCLXIV. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes...changing place with that which goes before. In sequent tod all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, And time that gave, doth now his gift...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. 102 SONKETS. Lt. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...this composed wonder of your frame ; Whether we are mended or whe'r better they, u<. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...that in your will (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. LIKE as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes...goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 45

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 pages
...confessions. In one sonnet he exhibits to his friend the picture of his life, in hours of labour " hastening to their end "— " Each changing place with that...before In sequent toil all forwards do contend*.'' and on another occasion he affectingly complains of being " debarr'd the benefit of rest," for that " day's...
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