Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man: Or, The Progress of Human Life. Illustrated by Prose and Verse, from the Works of the Most Eminent Writers. With a Brief Memoir of Shakspeare and His Writings |
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Page ix
... beautiful and touching reflections of Henry IV , the pa- thetic soliloquies of the repentant Wolsey , - these , and a thousand other instances may , when properly selected , and judiciously animadverted upon , not only delight the ...
... beautiful and touching reflections of Henry IV , the pa- thetic soliloquies of the repentant Wolsey , - these , and a thousand other instances may , when properly selected , and judiciously animadverted upon , not only delight the ...
Page xli
... beautiful auburn of his hair . But it tells us still more ; for the impress of that MIGHTY MIND , which ranged at will through all the realms of Nature and Fancy , and which , though incessantly employed in the personification of ...
... beautiful auburn of his hair . But it tells us still more ; for the impress of that MIGHTY MIND , which ranged at will through all the realms of Nature and Fancy , and which , though incessantly employed in the personification of ...
Page xlv
... beautiful drama of SHAKSPEARE , entitled As You Like It ; which is noticed in the IN- TRODUCTION . The paragraph that I have denomi- nated The Progress of Human Life , with the senti- ment conveyed in the delineation of the series of ...
... beautiful drama of SHAKSPEARE , entitled As You Like It ; which is noticed in the IN- TRODUCTION . The paragraph that I have denomi- nated The Progress of Human Life , with the senti- ment conveyed in the delineation of the series of ...
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... beautiful Vision of Mirzah , represents human life under the allegory of a Bridge of seventy arches , has this appropriate conclusion : " Look no more on MAN ( said the Genius ) in the first stage of his existence , in his setting out ...
... beautiful Vision of Mirzah , represents human life under the allegory of a Bridge of seventy arches , has this appropriate conclusion : " Look no more on MAN ( said the Genius ) in the first stage of his existence , in his setting out ...
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... beautiful scene of nature , the first impression is to consider it as designed , as the effect or workmanship of the Author of nature , and as significant of his power , his wisdom , or his goodness . And perhaps it is chiefly for this ...
... beautiful scene of nature , the first impression is to consider it as designed , as the effect or workmanship of the Author of nature , and as significant of his power , his wisdom , or his goodness . And perhaps it is chiefly for this ...
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Page 28 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 165 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 7 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 116 - Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. ' The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. ' She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Page 98 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 207 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 155 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 8 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 4 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Page 126 - By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon this half-faced fellowship ! Wor.