 | Psychology - 1989 - 370 pages
...cut their owner's fingers. 5. She allowed life to waste like a tap left running. (Virginia Wolfe) 6. I have ventured, /Like little wanton boys that swim...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... | |
 | England - 1873 - 786 pages
...and stands before us an undeniable failure. "I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim ou bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my highblown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me Weary, and old with service, to... | |
 | Kenneth T. Aitken - Religion - 1986 - 284 pages
...inflated bubble is bound to burst — as Shakespeare's Wolsey bitterly discovered: . . . I have ventur'd. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...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... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...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 that swim on bladders, This...summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...GN; NOBE; OBEV; OBS; PoEL-2; TrGrPo; UnS 2 No man's pie, is freed From his ambitious finger. (I, i) 3 villagers — The rector, the midwife, the sexton,...my sleeveless summery dress I have no protection, A My high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I da I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William J. Bausch - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 324 pages
...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 that swim on bladders, This...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... | |
 | David Selwyn - History - 1998 - 384 pages
...surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. I have ventur'd Like litde 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...root; And then he falls, as I do . I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 360 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... | |
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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 ever... 
