 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, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue.  The Broken Heart - Page 55by John Ford - 1906 - 143 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1812 - 560 pages
...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,...unconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cat. Contemn not your condition, for the proof Of bare... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...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,...every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol, are inconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cal.... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...mortality, my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened tay To execute that will, let in these losses : All...right again, and as a pine Rent from Oeta bv a sweep inconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cal,... | |
 | John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...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 1 Granted] Is here the participle perfect :' " You have the opportunity you sought granted to you,"... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...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,...unconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cat. Contemn not your condition, for the proof Of bare... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...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 varied...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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...mortality, my youth has acted Some scones of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, swetten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue; beauty, pomp,...makes assault On the unguarded castle of the mind. The Broken Heart, Act III. SUM 5. Ford's works have been several times reprinted. Incomparably the... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1838 - 932 pages
...much wrapt in her own thoughts to attend to Helen's reiterated injunctions of secresy. CHAPTER VI. -Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol — are inconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes as halt On the unguarded castle of the mind." SEVERAL... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American fiction - 1840 - 272 pages
...fierce As waters to the sacking of a gulf." Henry V. " On the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied...sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue." The Broken Heart. " Thus to rob a lady Of her good name is an infectious sin Not to be pardoned. Be... | |
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