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" Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. "
The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems - Page 199
by William Shakespeare - 1796
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Late Laurels, Volumes 1-2

Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - English fiction - 1864 - 630 pages
...said Florence, 'my complaint against old age is, that it is like the rest of life — so aimless : from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour — you know the rest.' 'Oh, yes!' cried Erle, 'and thereby hangs a tale — much too grave a one to...
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Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Volume 27

1892 - 426 pages
...Stunde reifen wir, Und so von Stund' zu Stunde faulen wir, Und daran hängt ein Mährlein. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. *) des abgewandten, stolzen, blut'gen Bruders. II, 7. Jg. Die ganze Welt ist Bühne, Und alle Frau'n...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats, And pleased with what he gets. mi n; M;.H //tr;/ And so, e can hope to leave them now is 101 17 As Vou Lite ft All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have...
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English Stage Comedy, 1490-1990: Five Centuries of a Genre

Alexander Leggatt - English drama (Comedy) - 1998 - 196 pages
...detaehment. as mJaques's speeeh on the se\en ages ol man or Touehstone's meditation on his wateh: 'And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe. / And then from hour to hour we rot and rot' ilI.vit. 26-27 . But there is also wtnter and rough weather in the golden world; Rosalind. Celia and...
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The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations

Martin H. Manser - Religion - 2001 - 524 pages
...perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore. Dwight Lyman (DL) Moody And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, /And then, from...hour, we rot and rot; / And thereby hangs a tale. William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...ad horum: this time again; via Fr, encore. Gc, hour, year, yore. Gm Yahrzeit: anniversary. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale . . . My lungs began to crow like chanticleer That fools should be so deep-contemplative, And I did...
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Ulysses and the Metamorphosis of Stephen Dedalus

Margaret McBride - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 238 pages
...world wags. Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, Like the fool, Bloom too is obsessed with time. Yet there is one minuscule temporal cue which Bloom...
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the ...

Will Durant - History - 2002 - 351 pages
...Melancholy Jacques" reminds us that the only certainty in life is death: And so from hour to hour we ri fie and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. (2.7) In Hamlet (1601) a brutal crime embitters the highly refined son of the victim to find a graveyard...
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Poetry as Survival

Gregory Orr - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 250 pages
...cynical Jacques remarks in the middle of the cheerful love story of Shakespeare's As You Like It: "And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, / And then from...to hour we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale" (2.7). 2. It's worth noting that Whitman is writing this poem at the close of the American Civil War....
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Come Clean

Kevin J. Porter - Gay men - 2002 - 313 pages
...hung pitifully as vengeful trophies. Around Marigold's neck a large blood-stained card proclaimed: From hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tail and his hag. "What?" Abby whispered, terrified. "Don't come in," I ordered. I walked over to the...
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