 I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air,...  The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere - Page 240by William Shakespeare - 1851Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 586 pages
...malady. ' I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth ; foregone all custom of exercise ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 596 pages
...malady. ' I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth ; foregone all custom of exercise ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1833 - 594 pages
...malady. ' I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth ; foregone all custom of exercise ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...[Dr. Mason Good has taken the very words of Hamlet to describe the first stage of this malady: — "I have, of late, (but, wherefore I know not,) lost...disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...mournful association, which constitutes the poetry of melancholy. " I have of late," says Hamlet, " (but wherefore I know not,) lost all my mirth, foregone...disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1835 - 494 pages
...This state of mind has, I think, been ascribed to Hamlet by Shakspeare, in the following passage : " I have, of late, (but wherefore I know not,) lost...exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my dispositions, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...king and queen moult no feather. I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so...disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 364 pages
...so well. " I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise, and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1837 - 376 pages
...nothing." and the whole of this beautiful speech to Guildenstern is full of dark sublimity : — " I have of late (but wherefore I know not) lost all...disposition, that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air — look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1837 - 376 pages
...of dark sublimity : — " I have of late (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone^all custom of exercises, and, indeed, it goes so heavily...disposition, that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air — look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
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