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It seemed to me that it was extremely likely, from the general character of the sonnet, that a particular play was meant, and that the play was none other but Romeo and Juliet. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.
The progress of knowledge and of true religion can alone eradicate such fearful relics of a tremendous superstition the offering, in another shape, to Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice. I have found all you say on the subject of cannibalism more than confirmed. I do not think you have even gone far enough.
'Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and death to me subscribes; Since, spite of him, I'LL live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes; And thou in this shall find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent. 'But you shall shine more bright in these contents, Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.
The man thus equip'd, and attended by 2 or 3 more men and Women with their faces and bodys besmear'd with soot, and a Club in their hands, would about sunset take a Compass of near a mile running here and there, and wherever they came the People would fly from them as tho' they had been so many hobgoblins, not one daring to come in their way.
"That face of his I do remember well; Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd As black as Vulcan, in the smoke of war." What You Will. From the moment when the Coquette fired her first gun, to the moment when the retiring boats became invisible, was just twenty minutes. Of this time, less than half had been occupied by the incidents related, in the ship.
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