| Paul Budra, Paul Vincent Budra - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 148 pages
...full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. (3.2.353-62) He dies humbled, with hopes of heaven. The de casibus pattern implicit in the action of... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1999 - 273 pages
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| Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...frost, a killing frost, /And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, /And then he falls as I do. I have...summers in a sea of glory, / But far beyond my depth: my highblown pride / At length broke under me, and now has left me, / Weary and old with service, to the... | |
| 1984 - 476 pages
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| Pierce Egan - 1999 - 603 pages
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| G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...the insubstantiability of temporal glory, the deep dangers of all mortal adventure : I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy... | |
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