10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WRACKFUL»
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wrackful in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Sonnets and Other Poems
5 O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'
ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,
but time decays? O fearful meditation! Where, alack, 10 Shall Time's best jewel ...
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen, 2009
2
Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic Reader
Next, we have an apostrophe of a thing that is so powerful that it is to brass, stone
, and steel as they are to flowers and honey breath; that powerful thing is time's
rage, the "wrackful siege of batt'ring days." All of this is intended to give a sense ...
Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux, 1988
3
The Heart of His Mystery: Shakespeare and the Catholic Faith ...
... hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's
honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days When rocks
impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?
Waterfield John Waterfield, John Waterfield, 2009
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Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of his ...
... Flavius, 'a tap not turned off'), OED Wasteful a.5b; wrackful 'destructive': the
wrackfull siedge (Son 65.6), OED Wrackful a3.2 [1578]; wrathful 'angry': Lest your
displeasure should enlarge it selfe To wrathfull tearmes: (TC 5.2.36–7, Ulysses),
...
4 O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'
ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,
but Time decays? 8 O fearful meditation! Where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel ...
William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, 2006
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The Whole Journey: Shakespeare's Power of Development
We need to consider, not a special case like Sonnet 73, but the much more
common case where there is great richness of metaphor but no metaphorical
consistency: O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful
siege of ...
Cesar Lombardi Barber, Richard Paul Wheeler, 1986
7
Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, ...
Oh how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'
ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,
but Time decays? Here the images of permanence in the first line—which ...
Murray Professor of English Literature Emeritus Thomas McFarland, Thomas McFarland, 2014
... o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose
action is no stronger than a flower? Oh how shall summer's honey breath hold
out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not
...
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The reader and Shakespeare's young man sonnets
"Hold" suggests that the human holds his breath; but "hold out" introduces the
idea of his (and the season's) being besieged, an image clarified in "wrackful
siege" and "battering days". The image of breath as a wall being battered gives
way to ...
Oh how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'
ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,
but Time decays? Oh fearful meditation! Where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WRACKFUL»
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wrackful is used in the context of the following news items.
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'O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, against the wrackful siege of battering days?” wrote William Shakespeare, which really says it all when it comes to ... «The Globe and Mail, May 14»
Confessions of a Shakespeare addict
So I took over, and recited the rest: O how shall summer's honey breath hold out/Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days/When rocks impregnable are not so ... «The Hindu, Apr 14»
