 Fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips ; how chances mock, And changes...  Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art - Page 209by Edward Dowden - 1875 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1811 - 766 pages
...revolution of the times, How chances mock ' O ! if chis were seen, The happiest youth, viewing bis progress through, What perils past, what crosses to...ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die. Ii',J, It. Dr. Johnson remarks a difficulty in the line, " What perils past, what crosses to ensue,"... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...i1 '» ''. i ' u ; ' " — " Oh ! if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing the progress thro* What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down to die." notwithstanding the affected carelessness and. .ease .of .the Idler, it is very easy to trace... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...Neptune's hips ; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors ! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth,— viewing...— Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. 'Tis not ten years gone, Since Richard, and Northumberland, great friends, Did feast together, and,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 pages
...fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth,—viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses...ensue,— Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. Tis not ten years gone, Since Richard, and Northumberland, great friends, Did feast together, and,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 488 pages
...as hurly-burly from Hurluberlu, Fr. And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, — viewing...— Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. 'Tis not ten years gone, Since Richard, and Northumberland, great friends, Did feast together, and,... | |
 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...Neptune's hips ; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors ! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his...ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. The author of Douglas seems to have had this passage in his mind, when he wrote the following lines':... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...for Neptune's hips ; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, — viewing...— Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. "Tis not ten years gone, Since Richard, and Northumberland, great friends, Did feast together, and,... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...good morrows to your majesty." King. " Is't morrow, lords?" War. " Tis one o'clock, and past." 1 19- " The happiest youth, — viewing his progress through,..." Would shut the book, and sit him down and die." If a youth, whose pre-ordained course of life were the happiest that a mortal could experience, should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 502 pages
...alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth,— viewing his progress throngb, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, — Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. "Tis not ten years gone, Since Richard, and Northumberland, great friends, Did feast together, and,... | |
 | 1806 - 310 pages
...this were seen, ' The happiest youth,— viewing his progress thorough,— . . . ' Whatperil*-past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die." To exemplify this position is the object of Mr. Bounden's " Vision of Silvester," which, notwithstanding... | |
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