 | William Shakespeare - 1826
...world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine; And after an hour more, 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826
...'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine ; And after an hour more, 'twill be eleven ,And so, from how to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826
...world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine; And after an hour more, 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hanys a tale. When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 636 pāgines
...ad horum: this time again; via Fr, encore. Gc, hour, year, yore. Gm Yahrzeit: anniversary. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale . . . My lungs began to crow like chanticleer That fools should be so deep-contemplative, And I did... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 497 pāgines
...perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore. Dwight Lyman (DL) Moody And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, /And then, from...hour, we rot and rot; / And thereby hangs a tale. William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to... | |
 | Will Durant - 2002 - 351 pāgines
...Melancholy Jacques" reminds us that the only certainty in life is death: And so from hour to hour we ri fie and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. (2.7) In Hamlet (1601) a brutal crime embitters the highly refined son of the victim to find a graveyard... | |
 | Margaret McBride - 2001 - 222 pāgines
...wisely, "It is ten o'clock. Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags. Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, Like the fool, Bloom... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 734 pāgines
...'It is ten o'clock. / Thus we may see', quoth he, 'how the world wags: / Tis bnt an hour ago since it was nine, /And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; /And so, from honr to hour, we ripe, and ripe, / And then from hour to hour, we rot, and rot, / And thereby... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 375 pāgines
...wags. / 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, / And after an hour more 'twill be eleven. / And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / And then from...hour we rot and rot; / And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear / The motley fool thus moral on the time / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,... | |
 | Gregory Orr - 2002 - 235 pāgines
...cynical Jacques remarks in the middle of the cheerful love story of Shakespeare's As You Like It: "And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, / And then from...to hour we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale" (2.7). 2. It's worth noting that Whitman is writing this poem at the close of the American Civil War.... | |
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Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. 
