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" O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down! "
Striking likenesses; or, The votaries of fashion - Page 51
by Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1808
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Hamlet. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...scholar's, eye, tongue, sword } .- • • The f The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And J, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his musick...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : • The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers! quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his musick vows,...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ..., Issue 1

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...same figure occurs in Hamlet : " The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword, " The glass of fashion and the mould of form, " The observ'd of all observers." " He had no legs that practis'd not his gait." This phraseology is a-kin to " Steps me a little higher...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his musick...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 418 pages
...Oph. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 17

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 382 pages
...by:'] The same idea is found in Hamlet : Ophelia, speaking of the prince, says he was : " The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, " The observ'd of all observers." Again, in Cymbeline : " A sample to the youngest ; to the more mature " A glass that feated them."...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 71

English literature - 1809 - 1020 pages
...spheres, Where pain will ce-.se, and ev'ry >ource ef tears. ELEGY ON TUE LATE MR B—— The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers HAMLET. ADIEU, ye scenes of social mirth, ** The seng, the laugh, the jocund roar ; The spell i» broke...
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 4

1811 - 530 pages
...courtier, he was the favourite of his sovereign— " The expectancy and rose of the fair state, " The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, "The observ'd of all observers." This letter of his, and the pious principles it breathes, when compared with the laxity, to call it...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword ; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form,' The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down '. And I, of ladies most deject and wretched. That suck'd the honey of his music...
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