| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying : on the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length ; By varied pleasures sweetned in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Cal. Contemn not your condition, for the proof Of bare... | |
| English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying; on the stage room to strike. Say fortune And our endeavours bring us into them, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue : beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness... | |
| John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying ; on the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue: beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness... | |
| British drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decayinc ; on the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue : beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness... | |
| 1812 - 560 pages
...human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying. On the stage Of my mortality, ny youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasure*, sweetened in the mixture* But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...fen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreamsi And shadows soon decaying, i /n the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness... | |
| Charles Lamb - Drama - 1813 - 508 pages
...melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying : on the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length ; By varied pleasures sweetned in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Cal. Contemn not your condition, for the proof vs Of... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1828 - 336 pages
...mortality, my youth lias acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures—sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp....With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol—are inconstant friends When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the... | |
| Hannah Maria Jones - English fiction - 1831 - 912 pages
...placed upon it, felt more happy than she could have believed possible in such a situation. CHAPTER XVII. My youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. — OLD PLAY. THE expectations of the adherents of... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...greatness are hut pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying ; on the stage Of my mortality, my youth has acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By...Doth frame an idol, are unconstant friends When any trouhled passion makes assault On the unguarded castle of the mind. The Broken Heart, Act III. Scene... | |
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