 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 sidor
...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...ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. HENRY VIII.— ACT III. Sc. 6. SECTION VII. — Figure of Speech. IN the section immediately foregoing,... | |
 | 1832 - 872 sidor
...proved abortive î This body may well exclaim with a doubledealing courtier of old ; — " Farewell — a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the...full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his shoot; And then he falls as I do/' Yes, the Board has ventured far beyond its depth; its high-blown... | |
 | John Young (M.A.) - 1833 - 328 sidor
...from the place of his defeat, sighing as he did so, with the fallen Cardinal Wolsey, — " Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness. This is the state...ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do." He now rejoined his brother in London, without indeed the wife, or fortune which he hoped to have borne... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 sidor
...statue to a gallows ! " Wolsey exclaims, when he had tasted the bitterness of disgrace, — " Farewell ! a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the...— nips his root; And then he falls — as I do." When Damocles, a flatterer of Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, had extolled the happiness of monarchs,... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 sidor
...lies the head that wears a crown ! Shakspeare. CARDINAL WOLSEY'S LAMENTATION OP HIS PALL. FAREWELL, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! 'This is the...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a rip'ning, nips his root ; And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 sidor
...Bequeath'd by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. WOLSEY AND CROMWELL. Wol. FAREWELL, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening — nips his root; And then he falls, as I do! I have ventured, Like little wanton boys... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 sidor
...leaves of hope'; to-morrow', blossoms', And bears his blushing honours thick upon him':0 The third day', comes a frost', a killing frost'; And', —...nips his root', And then he falls', as I do'. I have ventured', Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders', These many summers in a sea of glory'; But... | |
 | Thomas Bridgeman - 1835 - 130 sidor
...circumstance, to paint the delusive nature of human expectation : " This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow...The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And nips his root." But we now return to the garden. Before we have time to explore nature's treasures,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 588 sidor
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 sidor
...man;—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 frost,...full surely, His greatness is a ripening, nips his shoot, And then he falls—as I do. I have ventured Like little wanton boys, that swim on bladders,... | |
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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... 
