 Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for...  A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism - Page 195by Joseph Priestley - 1781 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1827 - 412 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.' We have likewise a fine example of this in the •whole part of Andromache in the Distrest Mother.,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 384 pages
...day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— wuen 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 liitle wanton hoys that swim on hladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; Bnt... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...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 ventured, (Like little wanton boys, that swim on bladders,) These many summers in a sea of glory : .But far beyond my depth : my high blown... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And, when lie thinks, good easy man, full sure! v Hin greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have venturM, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sen of glory : But far... | |
 | Francis Barry Boyle] [St. Leger - 1829 - 336 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 ! The Cardinal was truly a man of vast mind — of a haughty and aspiring soul; and the spectacle of... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...comes a frost, a killing frost ; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness in 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 ; But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...day, eûmes 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 thai swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory : But... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 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. HENRY VIII.— ACT III. Sc. 6. SECTION VII. — Figure of Speech. IN the section immediately foregoing,... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...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; But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 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." When Damocles, a flatterer of Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, had extolled the happiness of monarchs,... | |
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