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" O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare: King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ... - Page 70
by William Shakespeare - 1811
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The Mutual Flame: On Shakespeare's Sonnets and The Phoenix and the Turtle

G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...Wolsey's soliloquy at his fall: Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes'...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. (Henry fill, in, ii, 366) Here 'favours' means just what 'favour' might mean in our sonnet. We have...
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Shakespeare for One: Men : the Complete Monologues and Audition Pieces

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 332 pages
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The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakespeare ...

Ignatius Donnelly - 2002 - 508 pages
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McGuffey's Readers: Sixth Eclectic Reader

McGuffey - 2003 - 484 pages
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9.5 Decades

Paul Hammaker - 2003 - 734 pages
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Poems Old and New, Reading Guides and Indexes: Junior Classics Part 10, Part 10

William Patten - 2003 - 548 pages
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History in Quotations

M. J. Cohen, John Major - 2004 - 1168 pages
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Shakespearean Criticism

Michelle Lee - 2004 - 456 pages
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Graded Poetry: Seventh Year by Various Authors

Katherine D. Blake, Georgia Alexander - 2004 - 124 pages
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Shakespeare's Knowledge And Use of the Bible

Charles Wordsworth - 2004 - 320 pages
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