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" 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 sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. "
The Broken Heart - Page 67
by John Ford - 1894 - 132 pages
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The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of ..., Volume 2

George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 848 pages
...give the reader who is unacquainted with Ford, tome idea of the treasures laid up for him : Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...decaying ; on the stage Of my mortality, my youth has acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture,...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 540 pages
...sands are spent. For by an inward messenger I feel The summons of departure short and certain. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams And shadows...decaying ; on the stage Of my mortality, my youth has acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture,...
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The Works of John Ford: Introduction by Gifford. List of plays. Commendatory ...

John Ford - 1869 - 406 pages
...Glories / Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams 1 And shadows soon decaying : on the stage f\ Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length 22 We shall, madam.] Qy. "Madam, we shall"? D. By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 1

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...spent ; For by an inward messenger I feel The summons of departure short and certain. . . . Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue. . . . That remedy Must be a winding-sheet, a fold...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...spent ; For by an inward messenger I feel The summons of departure short and certain. . . . Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams. And shadows...of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten 'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue. . . . That remedy Must be a winding-sheet, a fold...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...reserved deportment : Deep in a dump John Ford alone was got, With folded arms and melancholy hat. ief sway in this island — though never thoroughly subdued, or Cal. Contemn not your condition for the proof Of bare opinion only : to what end Reach all these moral...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 430 pages
...reasonable and reasoning woman. So with ffriante, and Henrietto in Moliere. 2 Ford's Brohen Heart, iii. •. Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...on the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted &}me scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten 'd in the mixture, But tragical...
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Scenes from the life of the first Benedictines [dramatic sketches, in verse ...

Anna J. Terrot - Religious drama - 1877 - 230 pages
...drooping ; My life-glass sands are almost spent : And now I feel as I ne'er felt before, that Glories of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But happiest at the close. VICTOR — Father, you're looking weary ; Shall...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...feel The summons of departure short and certain. Col. You feed too much your melancholy. Pen. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows...pleasures sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Cil. Contemn not your condition, for the proof Of bare opinion only: to what end Reach all these moral...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...feel The summons of departure short and certain. CAL. Yon feed too much your melancholy. PEN. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying : on the stage "Some nnknowu contemporary has preserved a graphic trait of Ford'» appcarasw and reserved deportment...
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