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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... rest of the tomb . An anecdote is usually told of the ready wit of SHAKSPEARE , and the omission of it might be deemed defective in this cursory sketch of his biography . At Stratford there lived a gentleman of the name of Combe ...
... rest of the tomb . An anecdote is usually told of the ready wit of SHAKSPEARE , and the omission of it might be deemed defective in this cursory sketch of his biography . At Stratford there lived a gentleman of the name of Combe ...
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... rest ; Secure whate'er he gives - he gives the best . Yet , when the sense of sacred presence fires , And strong Devotion to the skies aspires ; Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind , Obedient passions , and a will resign'd ...
... rest ; Secure whate'er he gives - he gives the best . Yet , when the sense of sacred presence fires , And strong Devotion to the skies aspires ; Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind , Obedient passions , and a will resign'd ...
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... rest in heaven ! Torn from his weeping bride , the youth recalls The fond remembrance of affection's tear ; The liquid lustre of the azure eye , And all the endearing graces that adorn His absent love , while Fancy paints the scene Of ...
... rest in heaven ! Torn from his weeping bride , the youth recalls The fond remembrance of affection's tear ; The liquid lustre of the azure eye , And all the endearing graces that adorn His absent love , while Fancy paints the scene Of ...
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... rest , SELF - KNOWING ; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven , But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends ; thither with heart , and voice , and eyes Directed in devotion , to adore And worship GOD SUPREME ...
... rest , SELF - KNOWING ; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven , But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends ; thither with heart , and voice , and eyes Directed in devotion , to adore And worship GOD SUPREME ...
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... rest . But we are not authorized to suppose that the distribution of life by Proclus and Hippocrates , into seven portions , was sug- gested by any consideration of this kind . It is indeed a curious circumstance that , according to ...
... rest . But we are not authorized to suppose that the distribution of life by Proclus and Hippocrates , into seven portions , was sug- gested by any consideration of this kind . It is indeed a curious circumstance that , according to ...
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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.