 | James Moir Porteous - 1876 - 322 páginas
...BAEONIES. " This is the state of man ; TO-DAY he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, TO-MOKKOW blossom*, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him. The...a-ripening — nips his root, And then he falls." SHAKESPEARK. Y the Komans, inhabitants of the upper part of Clydesdale during the first century were... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 páginas
...perilous flood. HENRY VIII. — (Shakespeare^ ACT in. SCENE II. — Ante-chamber to the King's Apartment. Wol. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell...nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far... | |
 | English grammar - 1877 - 106 páginas
...hundred realms appear." (0 This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes : to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do." ** Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be ; And we did speak only to... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 páginas
...to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing...nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But... | |
 | 1878 - 446 páginas
...wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Eome to rise and mutiny. WOLSEY'S FAREWELL. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far... | |
 | London readers - 1878 - 296 páginas
...One native charm than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith. CARDINAL WOLSEY AND CROMWELL. Wol. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 páginas
...of his own superiority, he breaks out into that fine apostrophe — [> Act Hi., sc. 1.] " Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have vcntur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These many summers in a sea of glory; But... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 páginas
...representing the dimly expressed thoughts that pass through the brain of a soliloquiser. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...— nips his root, And then he falls as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of.glory ; But... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 páginas
...generally thought to be the woman wbo washed Christ's feet with her tears. VJOLSBY.S FAREWELL. FAREWELL ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then ho falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 546 páginas
...to all my greatness ! This is the state" of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; With thy grap lie falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers... | |
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Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many 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 Of a rude stream, that must for ever... 
