 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...misfortune however great : the struggle agitates and animates the mind : Wolaey. Farewel, a long farewel, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day...third day comes a frost, a killing frost. And when lie thinks, good easy man, full surely His .greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then he falls... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...conscious of his own superiority, he breaks out into that fine apostrophe " Farewel, a long farewel, to all my greatness! This is the state of man; to-day...honours thick upon him; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; Arid—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening—nips... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 324 pages
...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...honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; . And,—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening,-—nips... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...lord cardinal. ^Exeunt all hut Wolseif. Wul. So farewell to the little good you bear nie. farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And, — when ne thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he fulls,... | |
 | Miss Holford (Margaret) - 1820 - 416 pages
...And he left her to digest this implied threat. 384 CHAPTER XVL " This is the state of man ! To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow...honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost !" Shaks peart. SOME days after the select fete at Princess Stolberg's, Desmond arrived : he had entered... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...LEAVES spread, &c.] Compare Wolsey's speech in King Henry VIII. : " This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth " The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow...thick upon him ; " The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; " &c. MALONE. 7 The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories... | |
 | Thomas Morell - Great Britain - 1822 - 486 pages
...fidelity and beauty, that no apology can be necessary for introducing it in this place. " Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full sorely His greatness is a rip'ning, nips his root : And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...circumstance, to paint the delusive nature of human expectations — This is the state of man ; to day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow...honours thick upon him, The third day comes a frost, a killing frost. Abortive as the first-born bloom of Spring, Nipp'd with the lagging rear of Winter's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 320 pages
...king shall know it, and, no doubt, shall thank you. So fare you well, my little good lord cardinal. Wol. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell,...honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And,—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening,—nips... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 392 pages
...in a mournful tone: as in that pathetical soliloquy of Cardinal Wolsey on his fall. ' Farewell!—a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state...honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a kilting frost, And when ha thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips hit... | |
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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... 
