Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when... The Plant-lore & Garden-craft of Shakespeare - Page 356by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - 1884 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 464 pages
...froft, a killing froft, And when he think?, good eafy man, full furely His greatnefs is a ripening, nips his root, . ;, And then he falls as I do. ,. . ."; Henry VIII. aft $.fc. 6t EC T. VH. '•:•: -: r . . • '••- < .'••.... -*."'•• • rn '> ' "•'•... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 578 pages
...froft, a killing froft, And when he thinks, good eafy man, full furely His greatnefs is a ripening, nips his root, % And then he falls as I do. Henry VIII. aB 3-fc. *, SECT. VII. Figure of Speech. IN the feftion immediately foregoing, a figure of fpeech is... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1772 - 398 pages
...a froft, a kilhng Hoft, And when he thinks, good eafy man, full lurely His greatnefs is a ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. Henry VIII. aS 3. fc. 6. S EC T. VII. Figure of "Speech. IN the fection immediately foregoing, a figure of fpeech... | |
| Andrew Becket - 1787 - 494 pages
...froft, a killing froft, And, when he thinks, good eafy man, full furely His greatnefs is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 2. Who d.eferves greatnefs, Deferves your hate : and your affectious are A fick man's appetite,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 466 pages
...farewel, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1790 - 558 pages
...comes a troft, a. killing froft ; And, — when he thinks, good eafy man, full furel> His greatnefs is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. Í have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that fwim on bladders, 'i liefe many fummers in a fea of... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...farewe! to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope : to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a rip'ning, nips his root: And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...soliloquy of cardinal Wolsey, an emphatical pause is properly introduced into the first metaphor. . " And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely " His greatness is a ripening, nips his root; " And then — he falls as 1 do." AM»d again in the same soliloquy, " I... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - 1802 - 304 pages
...! This is the state of man : to day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, 1 And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, JUid then he falls as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton hoys that... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 280 pages
...farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man! today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely Hib greatness is a ripening, nips hit root, And then he fallt as I do.' We have likewise a fine example... | |
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