 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...this majestical roof fretted with golden fire 34 , why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul a.nd pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece...! the paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me, no nor woman neither ; though, by your smiling, you... | |
 | George Farren - Life insurance - 1826 - 128 pages
...me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, — this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden...fire, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." Abruptly his thoughts creak on the worn hinges of his... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 508 pages
...to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanginj firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden...fire, —why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...seems to me a aterii promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look jou, this hrave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work c ;i mii'! How nohle in reason!... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece...world! the paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me,—nor woman neither; though, by your smiling, vou seem... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...MALONK. a steril promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason !... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours."] composed that state of his own case, which showed an... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1835 - 494 pages
...a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air — look you — this brave overhanging firmament ; this majestical roof, fretted with golden...fire ; why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. Man delights me not, nor woman neither, though by your... | |
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I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air,... 
