| Noah Webster - 1809 - 202 psl.
...To-d&y heputsiorth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow, blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing...thinks, good easy man, full surely, His greatness is a ripuiing, nips his shoot ; And then he falls as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 272 psl.
...as in that pathetical soliloquy of cardinal Wolsey on his fall. The tenderleaves of hope ; to morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon...ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. We have likewise a fine example of this in the whole of Andromache in The Distrest Mother* particularly... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 psl.
...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...thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a rip'ning, nips bis root: And then he falls, as I do. 1 have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that... | |
| Elizabeth Robinson Montagu - 1810 - 334 psl.
...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...killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, fall surelj His greatness is a ripening, nips his root ; ' . ' And then he falls, as I do. ... | |
| 1810 - 278 psl.
...all my greatness! Thisjsthe stale of man ! to day he puts Jjyk The tender leaves of hope ; to morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon...third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he tbinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 304 psl.
...leaves of hope : to-morrow blossoms, ' And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; ' The third clay comes a frost, a killing frost ; 'And when he 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 542 psl.
...circuml'atrantibus undis, Mole tenet JEN. IV. 254. MUTABILITY OF LIFE. This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow...is a ripening nips his root, And then he falls. 255. RELIANCE ON HUMAN SUPPORT. O, how wretched Is that poor man, that hang* on Princes' favours !... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 500 psl.
...farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope,7 to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his root,8 that his body shall remain in prison at the king's pleasure. This very description of the prcemunire... | |
| Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 psl.
...farewell, to all my greatness. This is the state of man. To-day puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...thinks, good easy man, full surely, His greatness is a-ripeuiug, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. 2. A simile, or comparison is when the resemblance... | |
| 1814 - 568 psl.
...after sweet meat comes sour sauce." " The prosperous man to-day puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do." Woolsty's Speech in King Henry VIII. Tanyuam Ungues Digitosque suos. The subject is as familiar and... | |
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