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" 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 Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the ... - Page 52
by Spectator The - 1853
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Studies in History; Containing the History of England, from Its ..., Volume 1

Thomas Morell - Great Britain - 1822 - 486 pages
...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...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...
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The calendar of nature: designed for the instruction and entertainment of ...

Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...— 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. Abortive as the first-born bloom of Spring, Nipp'd with the lagging rear of Winter's...
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The First Canto of Ricciardetto, Volume 1

Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...blos-soms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon-him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, (1) And when he thinks, good easy man, full sure-ly His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, (2) And then he falls, as I do. I have ven-tur'd, Like little wanton boys...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 402 pages
...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...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a rip'ning, nips his shoot ;' And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys,...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 444 pages
...hope, to-morrow blossoms, (1) Absolute. (2) As the Pope's legate. '3) A writ inc'ivi'iig a [wnalty. And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — mps his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 11-12

British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...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...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...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 636 pages
...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...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...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his shoot — And then he falls, as I do. '1 have ventured, Like little wanton boys...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 252 pages
...forth Farewell!—a long farewell to all ray greatness! The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The...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...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 394 pages
...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 of this in the whole of Andromache in The Distrest Mother, particularly in these lines — ' I'll go, and in the anguish...
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