... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent... The Genius, and Character of Burns - Page 185by John Wilson - 1854 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1733 - 520 pages
...; this moft excellent canopy the air , look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majeftical roof fretted with golden fire» why, it appears no other thing to me, than a fotfl-and peftilent congregation of vapours. What a .piece of work is a man ! how noble... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1745 - 574 pages
...excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'ei -hanging firmament, this majeftical 9 of majeftical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and peftilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama - 1762 - 436 pages
...; this moft excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this rnajeftical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and peftilent congrefation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! ow noble in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1765 - 540 pages
...j this moll excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majeftical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and peftilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a mart ! how noble in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1765 - 540 pages
...promontory; this moft excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majeftical roof fretted with golden fire* why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and peftilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of •work is a man'! how noble... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1767 - 484 pages
...this moft excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this in;ijt;itical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and peftilent congregation of vapours. \Yhat a piece of work is a man ! how noble in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 630 pages
...•, this moft excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majeilical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and peftilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1780 - 288 pages
...promontory : this moft excellent canopy the air, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majeftical roof fretted -with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and peftilent congregation of yapours. What a piece of work is man : how noble in reafon... | |
| Martin Sherlock - English literature - 1781 - 260 pages
..." earth, feems to me a fteril promon" tory ; this moft excellent canopy the " air, this majeftical roof fretted with " golden fire, why it appears no other " thing to me, than a foul and peftilen" tial congregation of, &c." Hamlet had the vapours fometimes. I had them... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...;• this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in... | |
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