 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...Nay then, farewell! THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the...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... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...mortal greatness, so finely imaged by the poet of human nature: " This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow...killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full sure His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then he falls." He was now, at the early age of... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - Nature in the Bible - 1824 - 474 pages
...of human happiness, and the end of human ambition. " Such is the state of man ! To-day he puts forth tender leaves of hope; To-morrow blossoms, And bears...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, never to hope again." BDELLIUM. rfna BEDOLAH. Occ. Gen.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; To-day he puts forth The lender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...act iii. sc. 6. This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes, to morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips hi> root; And then he falls, as I do.— Upon which Mr. Warburton remarks, that as... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...vegetable nature : This is the state of man; to-day be puts forth The lender leaves of hupe, to morrow superior power: it reconciles superiority of power...the feelings of man, and establishes solid confide — nips bis root In such metaphors (besides their intrinsic elegance) we may say the reader is flattered;... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...him, I am sure of my reward from the other side. VI. — Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell. Wol. FAREWELL, a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his shoot — And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 372 pages
...good lord cardinal. [Exeunt all but WOLSEY. Wol. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 pages
...were but yesterday so vivid, so sanguine ! but, as Wolsey says — ' This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then he tails, as I do.' But what is to be done ? had I not better make... | |
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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... 
