..." Not mine own fears." Compare with Sonnet 104, " For fear of which," etc. Sonnet 107 continues: " Nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come." Compare this with Sonnet 106: " So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring."...

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...well-defined purpose on this trip, it was not to climb Mitchell. " Not," as he put it, — " Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come," had suggested the possibility that he could do it. But at the moment the easiest thing to do seemed...

...Cellini was merely the efficient sculptor and goldsmith; and, as for William Shakespeare, Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come had ever dreamed of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. Petrarch, who to us is the lyrist and the lover...

...Cellini was merely the efficient sculptor and goldsmith; and, as for William Shakespeare, Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come had ever dreamed of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. Petrarch, who to us is the lyrist and the lover...

...morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye. Shakespeare's Sonnet 83rd. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come — ******** The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd, And the sad augurs mock their own presage ;...

...we, which now behold these present Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. days, NOT mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon...

...seeking to express. The method of the concrete example is safest here. In such passages as Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come : Ah, sunflower, weary of Time ! The wan Moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting...

...with its date, belongs to the year 1603. I refer to Sonnet 107, which reads as follows — " Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, 1 Where so much is conventional, these periods of absence in the sonnets may also be conventional ;...

...107, is generally supposed to refer to the release of the poet's friend from the Tower: 107 Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come, Supposed as forfeit, to a confined doom. The Mortal Moon hath her eclipse endured, And the sad augurs...