 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...well, * Which unconsumed are still consuming ! BYRON. NAPOLEON. From " The Rcvcries of a Rechne." •s I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness,...shall fall— Like a bright exhalation in the evening ! " THE following reflections were written a short time prior to the death of this great and astonishing... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 444 pages
...his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I've touched the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from the full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Enter NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, SURREY, and CHAMBERLAIN. Nor. Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal: who commands... | |
 | John Thurston - 1825 - 308 pages
...friend : This, to confirm my welcome ; And to you all, good health. [drinks.'} Act I. Scene IV. Wol. Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Act III. Scene II. Griff. She is asleep : good wench, let's sit down quiet, For fear we wake her. Act... | |
 | Maria Hack - Great Britain - 1825 - 490 pages
...princes, the riches and the glory of this world, might then exclaim in the language of the poet, " Nay then, farewell; I have touch'd the highest point...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more." " How beautiful!" said Lucy. " This is poetry indeed! and what a contrast to those miserable verses... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pages
...to cure this ? No new device to beat this from his brains ? I know, 'twill stir him strongly ; Yet I know A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. vox,, vi. Re-enter the Dukes of NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, the Earl of SURREY, and the Lord Chamberlain.... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 530 pages
...holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I've touched the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from th« full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. [Going, «. Enter NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, SURREY, and CHAMBERLAIN, i.. Nor. (L. c.) Hear the king's pleasure,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 384 pages
...the Pope? The letter, as I live, with all the husiness I writ to his holiness. Nay, then, farewell I I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness...glory, I haste now to my setting : I shall fall Like a hright exhalation m the evening, And nO man see me more. Re-enter the DUKEs OF NORFOLK and SUFFOLK,... | |
 | John Thurston - 1830 - 176 pages
...less flowing Than Marehioness of Pembroke. Aet II. Sсene III. Nay then, farewell ! I have toueh'd the highest point of all my greatness; And from that...glory, I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like д bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Aft III. Seene II. G> (ff. She is asleep... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...and uncertainty, agitates the mind, and excites the imagination : Wolsey. Nay, then, farewell ; I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. HENRY VIII.— ACT III. So. 4. But it will be a better illustration of the present head, to give examples... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...and uncertainty, agitates the mind and excites the imagination ; Wolsey. Nay, then, farewell : I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. But it will be a better illustration of the present head, to give examples... | |
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Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. 
