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" I have ventured. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders. This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me. "
Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ... - Page 283
by Richard Edwards - 1867
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boy? that swim on bladders This many summers in a sea of...high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now hast left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me....
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...frost.) And when he thinks, (good easy man,) full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his shoot And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, (Like little wanton boys, that swim on bladders,) These many summers in a sea of glory : .But far beyond my depth : my high blown pride At length bioke...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 4

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...an empty bladder was. Spauer. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my...depth : my highblown pride At length broke under me. Shalupeare. A bladder but moderately filled with air, and strongly tied, being brought near the fire,...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 11

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...These many Summers on a sea of glory -, Bat far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length brake under me, and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rade stream, that must for ever hide me. Sha/apeare. Hi'GH-BORN. Of noble extraction. Cast round your...
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The Persians of Aeschylus, tr. with notes by W. Palin

Aeschylus - 1829 - 164 pages
...And I, alas ! alas ! pitiable, Hapless, to my race, and to my native land Have been a curse e. * * * I have ventured Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers on a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me — " * *...
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The American Church Monthly, Volume 8

Anglo-Catholicism - 1920 - 594 pages
...; he had fought for his honors by intrigue and by every despicable means ; "had ventured," he says, "like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, this...summers in a sea of glory but far beyond my depth." The bubble was pricked, the richness of honors swept away and in the face of death isn't it credible...
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Englische Studien, Volumes 51-52

Comparative linguistics - 1918 - 946 pages
...Füll many a flower is born to blush unseen (357) His greatness is a-ripening. (359/60) I have ventur'd Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders This many summers in a sea of glory. (361) my high-blown pride. NED. gibt für das wort nur dieses beispiel. (370) More pangs and fears...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...(Maxwell) . the usual salutation, which Wolsey picks 355 blushing glowing His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root; And then he falls, as I do . I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 360 This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth; my high-blown pride At length broke...
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A Mirror for Magistrates and the de Casibus Tradition

Paul Budra, Paul Vincent Budra - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 148 pages
...frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. I have ventured,...summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. (3.2.353-62) He dies humbled, with hopes of heaven. The de casibus pattern implicit in the action of...
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