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Essays and Poems - Page 92
by Jones Very - 1839 - 175 pages
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 29-30

British essayists - 1823 - 734 pages
...circumstances, would have exercised all the moral and social virtues, one whom Nature had formed to be Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, Th' observed of all observers ;— placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities...
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The British Essayists: Mirror

1823 - 344 pages
...circumstances, would have exercised all the moral and social virtues, one whom Nature had formed to be Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, Th' observed of all observers; — placed in a situation in w.hich even the amiable qualities...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volumes 2-7

1832 - 698 pages
...portrait our immortal bard has drawn, and whom we have been in the habit uf admiring as — 'The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers,' he was yet what, in common parlance, we should call a fine young man. It was not from a single interview...
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The Plays, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...they are. To a nunnery, go. [Exit Hamlet. Oph. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! • Call. P 2 The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue,...The glass of fashion, and the mould* of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go. [Exit Hamlet Oph. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown .' The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue,...The glass of fashion, and the mould' of form, The observ'd of all observers ' quite, quite down! And 1, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd...
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The life of Shakspeare; enquiries into the originality of his dramatic plots ...

Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...necessary, indeed, when the dramatist had conceived the character of a prince who could be called " The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue,...; The glass of fashion and the mould of form ; The observ'd of all observers ;" * to elevate him, even in madness, above the level of idiocy — rolling...
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The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His ..., Volume 2

Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 344 pages
...necessary, indeed, when the dramatist had conceived the character of a prince who could be called " The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue,...; The glass of fashion and the mould of form ; The observ'd of all observers ;" * to elevate him, even in madness, above the level of idiocy — rolling...
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The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at ..., Volume 5

Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 pages
...shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go. [Exit HAMLET. Oph. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass...the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go. [Exit Hamlet. Oph. O, what a noble mind is here overthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue,...rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould1 of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And 1, of ladies most deject and...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...do hold discourse ? O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's, eye, tongue, sword ; The expectancy and rose of the...state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd...
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