 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...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 ventured, Like little wanton boys, that swim on bladders, These many summers in a sea of glory;... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...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 a sea of glory,... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...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." A fine example of this figure occurs in Lord Bolingbroke's " Remarks on the History of England." He... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...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 ventured, !Lik6 little wanton boys that swim on bladders, ,, This many summers in a sea of glory... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 18 pages
...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 ventured, Like little wanton' hoys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory,... | |
 | 1852 - 560 pages
...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 ventured, Like little wanton boys, that swim on bladders, These many summers in a sea of glory,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...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 ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These many summers in a sea of glory... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 538 pages
...comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, ft>ll surely His greatness is a-ripening — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, 82 The judgment in a writ of prcfmunire (a barbarous word used instead of pr&monere)... | |
 | 1855 - 528 pages
...third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatuess is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do." We have likewise Andromache in "The lines. — a fine example of this in the whole part of IB Distressed... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...day eomes a frost, a killing t'rwt; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full rarely His greatness is a-ripening — nips his root, And then he falls as I do. Shnks. Hosry Ш. О gentlemen, the time of life is short : To spend that shortness basely, Ч were... | |
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Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks,... 
