 | Selina Bunbury - 1844 - 196 pàgines
...Queen Anne. CHAPTER VIII. Nay then, farewell! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; I haste now to my setting; I shall fall Like a bright...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. SHAKSPEARE. NNE'S ambition and vanity had been abundantly gratified; passions that shew even more unlovely... | |
 | Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell - 1845 - 326 pàgines
...believe the intended speculation proved unsuccessful. B3 CHAPTER II. Nay, then farewell! I 've touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that...glory I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a hright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. ALARM FROM LADDER HILL.—SHIP IN SIGHT.—NEWS... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 638 pàgines
...Will bring me off again. What's this — To the Pope I The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I have...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. VOL. VI. Re-enter the Dukes of NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, the Earl of SURREY, and the Lord Chamberlain. Nor.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pàgines
...excites the imagination; I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, Wolsey. Nay, then, farewell: And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Henry V11J. Act III. Sc. 2. But it will be a better illustration of the present head, to give examples... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pàgines
...FORGETFULN ESS — OBLIVION. 1. I 've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; And from the full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting....exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more ! SHAKSPEARE. 2. The swallowing gulf Of dark oblivion and deep despair. 3. 'Tis far off; And rather... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 588 pàgines
...letter, as I live, with all the business • I writ to his holiness. Nay, then, farewell! I have touched the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from...Re-enter the DUKES of NORFOLK ' and SUFFOLK, the EARL of SURREY, and the Lord Chamberlain. Nor. Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal; who commands you To render... | |
 | Brand - 1849 - 544 pàgines
...Bartlemy, to make the fair personal, has had his day, and must speedily say farewell! " I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that...exhalation in the evening, and no man see me more." The following allusion to the roast pig is from Poor Robin's Almanack for 17-40 : " If women that with... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pàgines
...perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him. WOLSEY. Nay then, farewell, I have touched.the highest point of all my greatness ; And from that...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is... | |
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Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting : I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. 
