 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 British Essayists: The Spectator - Page 120by Alexander Chalmers - 1802Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...him, I am sure of my reward from the other side. VI. — Cardinal Wohey and Cromwell. Wol. 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 his blushing honours... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...reward from the other side. VII.— Cardinal } Volse ij and Cromwell.— HENHY VIII. Wol. FAREWELL, a long farewell to all my greatness .-! This is the state of uian ; to day he puts forth The tender ledves of hope ; tomoirow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 542 pages
...good lord cardinal. [Exeunt all but Wolsev. Wol. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 526 pages
...lord cardinal. [Exeunt all but WOLSEY. WOL. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the...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,... | |
 | 1821 - 780 pages
...yet, to our surprise, in the short space of an hour they are all exhausted. Thus wastes man! to-day he puts forth the tender leaves of hope; to-morrow, blossoms, and bears his blushing-honours thick upon him ; the next day conies a frost, which nips the shoot, and when he thinks... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pages
...five of those that are not hendecasyllables : So farewell to the little good you bear-me ! Farewell ! a long farewell to all my great-ness. This is the state of man ; to-day he puts-forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blos-soms, And bears his blushing honours thick... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 394 pages
...Sorrow and complaint demand a voice quite different; flexible, slow, interrupted, and modulated hi a mournful tone : as in that pathetical soliloquy...frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then ho falls as 1 do.' We have likewise a fine example... | |
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