 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new-opened : Oh, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes'...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. Enter CROMWELL, amazedly. Why, how now, Cromwell ? Crom. I have no power to speak, sir. Wolsey. What!... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...: 0, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors ! There is, betwixt that smile he would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.— Enter Cromwtli, amaxeaiy. Why, ho>e now, Cromwell? Crom. I have no power to speak, sir. Wol. What,... | |
 | Robert W. Uphaus - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 172 pages
...hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. (III.ii.365-72) Then, after declaring, "The King has cur'd me, / I humbly thank his Grace" (380-81),... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye. I feel my heart now open'd. O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. (57) Act III, Scene 2: Wolsey has just spoken with his faithful follower and pupil, Cromwell, who now... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII, act III, scene ii, lines 350-72. Cardinal Wolsey is speaking about... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...intend to deny. PUBLILIUS SYRUS (1st century BC). Roman writer of mimes. Sententiae, no. 470. 7 О how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes'...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. Cardinal Wolsey, in Henry VIII, acl 3, sc.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...hate ye! I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. 42 0 mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk... | |
 | David Selwyn - History - 1998 - 384 pages
...the comparison of his abilities with those of the family is significant. In fact he is acting, and Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! There...when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.146 It is the greatest speech in the play, and undoubtedly one of the things Crawford reads,... | |
 | William J. Bausch - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 324 pages
...hate ye; I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That...falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. — Shakespeare, Henry VIII O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...But far beyond my depth: my highblown pride / At length broke under me, and now has left me, / Weary and old with service, to the mercy / Of a rude stream...falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope again. [III.ii.350-72] Mira tan sólo mi caída, y lo que me arruinó: Cromwell, te lo encomiendo, arroja... | |
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O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never... 
