 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 he...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 5781855Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...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 his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These many summers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And, — when ne thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening,...nips his root, And then he fulls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pages
...a misfortune however great : the struggle agitates and animates the mind: And when lie thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his root. And then he fulls as I do. , rfenry V1IL Act III Sc. C. SECTION VII. Figure of Speech. IN the section immediately foregoing, a... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pages
...honours thick upon-him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, (1) And when he thinks, good easy man, full sure-ly His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, (2) And then he falls, as I do. I have ven-tur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on blad-ders, These... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 636 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 252 pages
...blushing 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 his root, And then he falls as I do. We have likewise a fine example of this in the whole part of Andromache in the Distrest... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...blushing 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 his root, And then he falls — as I do. We have likewise a fine example of this in the whole part of Andromache in the Distrest... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 394 pages
...blushing 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 his root, And then ho falls as 1 do.' We have likewise a fine example of this in the whole of Andromache in The Distrest... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 444 pages
...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 his root, And then he falls, as 1 do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys, that swim on bladders, These many summers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...blushing 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 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... | |
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