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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... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators - Page 259
by William Shakespeare - 1806
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...FARE WELL, a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to day he puts forth Tht tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms, And bears...full surely His greatness is a 'ripening, nips his ohoot — And then he falls, as I do. 1 have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,...
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Warbeck of Wolfsteïn, Volume 2

Miss Holford (Margaret) - 1820 - 416 pages
...And he left her to digest this implied threat. 384 CHAPTER XVL " This is the state of man ! To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow...honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost !" Shaks peart. SOME days after the select fete at Princess Stolberg's, Desmond arrived : he had entered...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...leaves of hope ; tomorrow blossoms, Add bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day come a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good...full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his shoot — , And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 542 pages
...doubt, shall thank you. So fare you well, my little good lord cardinal. [Exeunt all but Wolsev. Wol. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell,...blossoms And bears his blushing honours thick upon him'The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost • And,— when lie thinks, good easy man, full'surelv...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 19

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 526 pages
...to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope * 7, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root8, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 19

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...doubt, shall thank you, So fare you well, my little good lord cardinal. [Exeunt all but WOLSEY. WOL. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell...man ; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope * 7, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...LEAVES spread, &c.] Compare Wolsey's speech in King Henry VIII. : " This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth " The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow...thick upon him ; " The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; " &c. MALONE. 7 The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories...
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Studies in History; Containing the History of England, from Its ..., Volume 1

Thomas Morell - Great Britain - 1822 - 486 pages
...fidelity and beauty, that no apology can be necessary for introducing it in this place. " Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full sorely His greatness is a rip'ning, nips his root : And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like...
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The calendar of nature: designed for the instruction and entertainment of ...

Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...circumstance, to paint the delusive nature of human expectations — This is the state of man ; to day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow...honours thick upon him, The third day comes a frost, a killing frost. Abortive as the first-born bloom of Spring, Nipp'd with the lagging rear of Winter's...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 394 pages
...a mournful tone : as in that pathetical soliloquy of Cardinal Wolsey on his fall. ' Farewell ! — a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the...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...
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