 I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the...  The Standard First[-fifth] Reader ... - Page 362by Epes Sargent - 1859Full view - About this book
 | 1878 - 892 pages
...a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you — this brave o'erhanging — this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." Nor when turning from natnre to the earlier pages of the Bible does he find an answer to... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...better proposer could charge you withal, be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for, or no ? Guil. My lord, we were sent for. Ham. I will tell...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form, and... | |
 | Henry Curling - 1846 - 1012 pages
...other than her old favourite the sometime page of Daundelyonne. CHAPTER XIII. A DISAppOINTED LOVEE. This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. Alan delights not me, nor woman neither. 6HAKESFERE. WHEN the Lord of Folkstone left his faithful... | |
 | Alfred Smith (M.R.C.S.) - 1847 - 156 pages
...often, indeed, resemble, and sometimes lead to an affection of the mind itself— Hamlet says, "it goes heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame,...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! How infinite in faculties! In form and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...earth, seems to me a steril promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this hrave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties -f- ! in form,... | |
 | John Forbes - 1847 - 664 pages
...; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you,— this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestic roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." (llamlrt, ii, ].) emotion or moral feling and a sensual gratification, than that the one... | |
 | 1847 - 614 pages
...; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majeatical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.' A most faithful and vivid picture is this of a mental condition that isj the precursor of... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'ei hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden...thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." We might contentedly take the above quotation for our description of the symptoms of gloomy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...cold fruitless moon. MN i. 1. My cue is rillanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. KL i. 2. I have of late (but wherefore I know not) lost all...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. H. ii. 2. Melancholy as a lover's lute. H. IV. FT. ii 2. Boy, what sign is it, when a man... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestieal roof fretted with golden fire, why it appears no other...thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties! in form and... | |
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