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 51by Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1808Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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