...lie A little further to make thee a room ; Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give." JOSIAH QUINCY. JULY 4, 1826. FOR THE CITY AUTHORITHS. THIS second oration of the senior...

...our stage, My Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser ; or bid Beaumont lie . Thyself shall see the act ; For, as thou urgest justice, be assur'd, Thou shalt have jus still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. That I not mix thee...

...lie A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb ; And art alive still, be land-rats, and water-rats, and-thieves, and water-th praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses ; I mean, with great but disproportion^ muses...

...Well did Ben Jonson write of Shakspeare : " Thou art a monument, without a tomb ; And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give." Every year a " Shakspeare Festival" is given by the professed friends of the poet...

...A little further off, to make thee room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great but disproportion'd Muses:...

...applause, delight, the wonder, of our stage ! Thou art a monument without a tomb ; And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe....

...printed in 1 633 among the poems of Donne, to whom they were wrongly attributed ; COMMENDATORY VERSES. A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. That I not mix thee...

...; A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, — I mean, with great but disproportion'd...

...lie A little further off to make thee room ; Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek, From thence to honour thee I will...

...to either the one or the other. The lines, Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give, seem much more applicable to a living than to a deceased person. And though thou hast...