 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...has taken the very words of Hamlet to describe the first stage of this malady: — "I have, of late, (but, wherefore I know not,) lost all my mirth; foregone...firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours."] composed... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...mournful association, which constitutes the poetry of melancholy. " I have of late," says Hamlet, " (but wherefore I know not,) lost all my mirth, foregone...firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1835 - 494 pages
...has, I think, been ascribed to Hamlet by Shakspeare, in the following passage : " I have, of late, (but wherefore I know not,) lost all my mirth, foregone...exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my dispositions, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1835 - 486 pages
...all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my dispositions, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile...excellent canopy, the air — look you — this brave overhanging firmament ; this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire ; why, it appears no other thing... | |
 | 1834 - 464 pages
...allusion to the indolence and lethargy which so commonly accompany obesity. ' I have of late," he says, ' but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all custom qfexercises, and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, &c., &c.' Now what is this, I would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...king and queen moult no feather. I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so...firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 364 pages
...so well. " I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise, and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition,...promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire — why, it appears... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...secresy you are bound to observe remain inviolable, wherefore, I know not,) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so...disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a steril promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1836 - 780 pages
...soothed by the reflection, that they were By the world forgot. CHAPTER XIII. ENNUI. I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise. SHAKSPEARE. TREMAINE'S listlessness, not to say peevishness, now increased. To return to... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...aware that no composition of their own could possibly convey the same ideas so well. " I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise, and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems... | |
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I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the... 
