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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... "
Shakespeare's King Henry the eighth, a historical play, revised by J.P ... - Page 45
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...blossoms , And bears his 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 shoot ; And then he falls , as I do. I have ventur'd , Like little wanton boys...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 408 pages
...comes a frost, a killing frost ; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls,...ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, i of a praemunire,] It is almost unnecessary to observe that pramunire is a barbarous word used instead...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pages
...comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,' — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls,...ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 1 ' of a praemunire,] It is almost unnecessary to observe that prcemunire is a barbarous word used...
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The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...him; And when he thinks, good eafy man, full furely His greatnefc is a ripening, ^pips his fhoot ; And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys, that fwim on bladders,, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride < At length broke under me ; and now...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...this angry flood, And ruiia to yonder point. SM'f'3"I Live ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that twin on bladders, These many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth. Skabpart. The soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoner!, lest any of them should iwim out and escape....
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...• ' And bears his blushing hdnours thick upon him j The third d;iy comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His...then he falls as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wantcn boys, that swim on bladders, These many suir.mers in a sea of glory. But far beyond my depth...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 510 pages
...blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely...And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like liiile wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...blossoms. And bears his 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 rip'ning, nips his root: And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that...
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The British Essayists, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 494 pages
...blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His...ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do.' We have likewise a fine example of this in the whole of Andromache in The Distrest Mother, particularly...
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The Balance, and Columbian Repository, Volume 3

Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a lulling frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His...is a ripening, nips his root, And then he falls." NB Some remarks on a meeting of certain members of the " Executive Directory," at the Albany Tontine,...
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