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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 air,... "
The Elements of Moral Science: Revised and Stereotyped - Page 106
by Francis Wayland - 1843
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John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor

Michael A. Morrison - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 418 pages
...the audience) 173 this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory . . . the air . . . appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors." Rosencrantz and Guildenstern exchange smiles, unseen by Hamlet. He turns and looks at them an instant...
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Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

James Rodger Fleming - Science - 1998 - 209 pages
...Introduction Apprehending Climate Change This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving...
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Chapman's Homer: The Iliad, Volume 1

Homer, George Chapman - Literary Collections - 1998 - 650 pages
...mingle with its constellations: This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving...
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Barrymore: A Play

William Luce - Drama - 1998 - 60 pages
...seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving,...
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Russian Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price - Drama - 1998 - 216 pages
...to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er changing firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason!...
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Charging Ahead

Joe Sherman - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 239 pages
...scene 2; the monologue goes: "This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors." 36 Smog and the story of auto air pollution: James...
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The Little Theater's Production of 'Hamlet': A Play

Jean Battlo - Appalachian Region - 1999 - 76 pages
...this brave o'erchanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire - why it appeareth no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving,...
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Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression

Lewis Wolpert - Depression, Mental - 1999 - 216 pages
...to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, - this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. There were several treatises that could well have had an influence on Shakespeare. A Discourse...
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Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave 305 o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,...
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Border Lands: The Best of David Adam's Celtic Vision

David Adam - Religion - 1999 - 268 pages
...seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason!...
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