 | 1865 - 820 pages
...sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you — this brave overhanging tirmament ; this majestical roof fretted with golden fire —...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is man 1 How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and... | |
 | George Willson - 1844 - 300 pages
...promontory ; this most excel lent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestic roof, fretted with golden fire — why it appears...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in. form and... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pages
...Ihin mont excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, t! • majeslien) roof, fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation ofvupours. What a piece of work is man ! Hownoble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 552 pages
...you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire, why, it appeare no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in facuities ! in form, and moving, how expresa, and admirable... | |
 | Henry Curling - 1846 - 1012 pages
...Daundelyonne. CHAPTER XIII. A DISAppOINTED LOVEE. This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. Alan delights not me, nor woman neither. 6HAKESFERE. WHEN the Lord of Folkstone left his faithful attendant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...earth, seems to me a steril promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this hrave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted...pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties -f- ! in form, and moving, how express and... | |
 | 1847 - 614 pages
...; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majeatical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.' A most faithful and vivid picture is this of a mental condition that isj the precursor of decided insanity—the... | |
 | John Forbes - 1847 - 664 pages
...; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you,— this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestic roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." (llamlrt, ii, ].) emotion or moral feling and a sensual gratification, than that the one consists of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...indee'd, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form, and... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'ei hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." We might contentedly take the above quotation for our description of the symptoms of gloomy melancholy,... | |
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I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air,... 
