 | Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - Elocution - 1928 - 568 pages
...bears his blushing honors thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is...the mercy Of a rude stream that must forever hide me. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII SECTION V QUESTIONS, TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION, AND SUGGESTED READINGS CHAPTER... | |
 | Literature - 1926 - 882 pages
...that part of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" which Fletcher wrote, in which Wolsey says: I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Then, for a tribute to swimming — the only sport you "come clean from", as the Avenue A urchin... | |
 | Psychology - 1989 - 370 pages
...cut their owner's fingers. 5. She allowed life to waste like a tap left running. (Virginia Wolfe) 6. I have ventured, /Like little wanton boys that swim...service, to the mercy /Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. (William Shakespeare) 7. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun. (Robert Herrick) 8.... | |
 | Kenneth T. Aitken - Religion - 1986 - 284 pages
...inflated bubble is bound to burst — as Shakespeare's Wolsey bitterly discovered: . . . I have ventur'd. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. (b) The Sin of Pride. The connection between the first and second lines of 21:4 is obscure. If... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...GN; NOBE; OBEV; OBS; PoEL-2; TrGrPo; UnS 2 No man's pie, is freed From his ambitious finger. (I, i) 3 villagers — The rector, the midwife, the sexton,...* The long wait for the angel, For that rare, ran me. (Ill, ii) 4 I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I da I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O, how... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...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. I have ventured,...with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new opened. O, how... | |
 | William J. Bausch - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 324 pages
...full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye; I feel my heart new open'd. O, how... | |
 | David Selwyn - History - 1998 - 384 pages
...surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. I have ventur'd Like litde wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers...with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of the world, I hate ye; I feel my heart new open'd. O how wretched... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, /And then he falls as I do. I have ventur'd / Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, /This...the mercy / Of a rude stream that must forever hide me. / Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye; / I feel my heart new open'd. O how wretched /... | |
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Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for... 
