...我的愛能在墨痕裏永放光明。 卡之琳譯 18 When in the Chronicle of Time (cvi) Wasted William Shakespeare When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our...

...sonnets, poetry's life is a contingent life, remade to fit new situations, as we see in sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, 1 see their Antique pen would have expressed Ev'n such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises...

...affords. Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone, Which three till now never kept seat in one. 106 When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rime In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand,...

...lines of demarcation, though clear, run together, overlapping and retouching. Consider Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our...

...affords. Fair, kind, and true have often lived alone, Which three till now never kept seat in one. When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights; 5 Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their...

...blason of the lady's eye, hair, bosom, or less often mentioned body parts; what Shakespeare called "the blazon of sweet beauty's best, /Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow" (Sonnet 106). In this case the basic meaning is praise, but there is also a trivial-pursuit implication...

...official dwelling) 106 When in the chronicle of wasted time 1 I see descriptions of the fairest wights, 2 And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of...knights; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, 5 Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such...

...the value of Shakespeare's poem, but as the archetype of value towards which earlier poets aspired: When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now. 1106.1-81 As we have already seen, this sonnet is consciously...

...explains how he came to see mankind as glorious. The Sonnets record his devotion to a beautiful young man: When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions...wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise 01 ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of...

...the second quatrain, as with the daring alliteration and conquering impact of: Then, in the blazdn of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip,...of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now. ('<*) Here the conquest is of past time; the excellence...