 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...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 on bladders, This...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. * Dooming to ruin. HINTS TO LADIES. IF you dance well, dance but seldom. If you dance ill, never dance... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 476 pages
...; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. — Enter CROMWELL, amazedly. Why, how now, Cromwell ! Crom. I have no power to speak, sir. Wol. What... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...and now hast left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate...women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, N*ver to hope again. CARDINAL WOLSEY'S SPEECH TO CROMWELL. Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...than we do minister To our gross selves t 5 — ii. 2. 46. The wretchedness of human dependence. 0 how wretched Is that poor man, that hangs on princes'...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. 25 — iii. 2. 47. The proffered means of Heaven to be embraced. The means, that heaven yields, must... | |
 | 1853 - 796 pages
...life, the follies engendered by too great prosperity. " 0, liow wretched Is that poor man that bangs on princes' favours ; There is, betwixt that smile...falls, he falls like Lucifer— Never to hope again." Perhaps from a not unnatural reaction, we find the third Earl of Essex the avowed enemy of courts and... | |
 | Charles Rann Kennedy - English poetry - 1853 - 168 pages
...K\eos ßporшv crrvyш, SiSa%dels o-^re yovv ro cr<o<f>povelv' S>, 'ocrris ßaeiXeшv drjpa %ápiv There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. — TRANSLATION FKOM THE ŒDIPUS KEX OF SOPHOCLES. What man is he, whom prophet-tongued Parnassus doth... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...drag thee low; Lean on faith, look up rejoicing, We are wiser than we know. C. Maclay. FALL. THEKE is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. Shakspere. I Ve touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; And from the full meridian of my glory... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 538 pages
...must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye ! I feel my heart new-open'd : O ! how wretched Is that poor man, that hangs on princes'...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. — Enter CROMWELL, amazcdly. Why, how now, Cromwell ! Crom. I have no power to speak, sir. Wol What!... | |
 | Heberden Milford - 1854 - 338 pages
...state distinctions — I seek not sovereign services. In Henry VIIL, Wolsey says to Norfolk :— ' Oh how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes'...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.' " Thus Lord Squanderficld, in his rambling, loquacious way, delivered himself; and as usual, made what... | |
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O, how wretched Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin. More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,... 
