...abbreviation HW and page number. 13. The passage De Quincey quotes is from Shakespeare's Sonnet 64: "Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate / That Time will come and...choose / But weep to have that which it fears to lose." On De Quincey and debt, see Lindop 1981; Hubbard 1993; McDonagh 1994: 42-65. On De Quincey as a kind...

...desired, a feeling not at all alien to the West, as Shakespeare's sonnet 64 illustrates. 124 Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Whereas the most accomplished examples of Western art are monuments erected to conquer passage, Japanese...

...quotation. Coda Quotation and the Circulation of Feeling in Early Nineteenth-Century England Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Shakespeare, Sonnet 64 This book has suggested that literary and philosophical obsession with extravagant...

...metaphysically accurate phrase. It is still true that 'Time will come and take my love away', and that This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose'. And so with every part of the doctrine of a timelessly perfect Reality. Whatever now seems evil - and...

...with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. (64) Time in the Sonnets is a devourer, a thief, a merciless legal prosecutor, a relentless creditor...

.... . . when I have seen") until he gathers his observations into a personal application: "Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, / That time will come and take my love away" (11-12). In the sonnets after 126, the poet himself is the location of interchange and loss. 15. The...

...love, and the weating down by the elements and ultimately Time and Death and he despairs: Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. The 'remover', of course, can be Death. Shakespeare knew that love in its Uranian ideal alters not,...

...itself: When I have scene such interchange of state, Or state it selfe confounded, to decay, Ruine hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and...This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weepe to have, that which it feares to loose. (64.9-14) Claims for poetry's immortalizing power are...

...ftore. When I haue feene fuch interchange of ftate, 9 Or ftate it felfe confounded, to decay, Ruine hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and take my loue away. 12 This thought is as a death which cannot choofe But weepe to haue, that which it feares...

...with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. (Sonnet LXIV) The 'hungry ocean'; a usual thought. So is the word 'rage'. Or again, Since brass, nor...