| 1832 - 872 páginas
...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...thinks, good easy man, 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... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 páginas
...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...a-ripening — 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;... | |
| John Young (M.A.) - 1833 - 328 páginas
...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...thinks, good, easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do." He now rejoined his brother in London,... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 436 páginas
...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...thinks, good easy man, full surely, His greatness is a ripening — nips his root; And then he falls — as I do." When Damocles, a flatterer of Dionysius... | |
| Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 páginas
...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... | |
| Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 páginas
...my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow the blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon...a-ripening, 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,... | |
| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...farewell, to all my greatness! 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 da I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory,... | |
| Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - 544 páginas
...speaker is Cardinal Wolsey): This is the state of man; today he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. The civilized world seems, we have said, to be struggling in its death throes; not yet is "the strong... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 páginas
...to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,...a-ripening, 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,... | |
| John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 páginas
...Shakespeare When thou dost hear a toll or knell Then think upon thy passing bell. John Ray Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the...of hope; tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy... | |
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