 | Charles Henry Knox - 1852 - 928 pages
...thundering cheers, arrived at the hustings, he found that he might say with Wolsey, — '• I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more." For scarcely had he reached the tribune, when the Liberator overwhelmed him with a perfect torrent... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...high heaven, As make the angels weep." FAREWELL TO GREATNESS. " Nay, then, farewell ! I have touch' d the highest point of all my greatness; And, from that...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...M. CARDINAL WOLSEY, ON BEING CAST OFF BY KINO HENRY Vm .— Id. NAY, then, farewell, I have touched the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 558 pages
...letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I have touch 'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Ee-enter the DUKES OF NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, the EARL OF SURREY, and the Lord Chamberlain. NOR. Hear... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...28. CARDINAL WOLSEY, ON BEING CAST OFF BY KING HENRY VIIL— 10. NAY, then, farewell, I have touched the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 476 pages
...strongly ; yet I know A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune Will bring me off again. What 's this ? — " To the Pope?" The letter, as I live,...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. [Sinks in a chair.' 1 ' Not in fe VOL. V.— 36 Re-enter the Dukes of NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, the Earl... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...bound ; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. 18 — v. 1 695. Departing greatness. I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. 25 — iii. 2. 696. The same. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...less in pity, than his glory, which Brought them to be lamented. AC v. 2 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. H.VIII. iii. 2. Where is thy husband now ? where be thy brothers ? Where be thy two sons ? wherein... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 538 pages
...yet I know A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune Will bring me off again. What's this 1 — "To the Pope?" The letter, as I live, with all the...shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, j And no man see me more. Re-enter the Dukes of NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, the Earl of SURREY, and the Lord... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - 1854 - 316 pages
...attaching them to one's self indissolubly, by the means that naturally excite and perpetuate friendship. " I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more." SHAKSFEABI. By an elliptical metaphor, his highest official station is called his greatness, as though... | |
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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. 
