 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...that swim on bladders, These many Summers on a sea of glory , But far beyond my depth : my high-Mourn pride At length broke under me, and now has left me,...service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. HI'GH-BORN. Of noble extraction. Cast round your eyes Upon the high-lam beauties... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...Like little wanton boys that swim on bladder*, This many summers in a sea of glory : But far bevond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under...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 opcnM : O, how... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...upon him; The third day 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...ventured, Like little wanton boys, that swim on bladders, These many summers In a sea of glory; But far beyond my Bepth : my highblown pride At length broke... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...Cardinal Wolsey exclaims — -" I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my...service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me." When ambition guides the mind, ease, honour, and character will be sacrificed for... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | England - 1873 - 786 pages
...and stands before us an undeniable failure. "I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim ou bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But...service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me." « We are mistaken if ever — no matter what politics may be in the ascendant —... | |
 | 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...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 "lamp"... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 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...glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and... | |
 | 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 (Ill, ii) 4 I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
