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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... "
The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected - Page 359
by William Shakespeare - 1773
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...smile he would aspire to, That sweet aspeet of princes, and his ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have. And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again ! Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let 'a dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 32

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 726 pages
...that hangs on princes' favours; There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and our ruin, More pangs and fears than war or women have." Hen. VIII. There is one portion of the English public to whom we would especially commend the study...
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School elocution : or The young academical orator

William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...princes' favours ! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes and their ruin, More pangs and fears than war or women have,...And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to rise again ! JAFFIER LAMENTING HIS RUINED STATE. There's not a wretch that lives on common charity,...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 41

1853 - 796 pages
...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 to hope again." Perhaps from a not unnatural reaction, we find the third Earl of Essex the avowed enemy of courts and...
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The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 1

C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...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 to hope again. * Dooming to ruin. HINTS TO LADIES. IF you dance well, dance but seldom. If you dance ill, never dance...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...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 to hope again. 25 — iii. 2. 47. The proffered means of Heaven to be embraced. The means, that heaven yields, must...
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Specimens of Greek and Latin verse: chiefly translations

Charles Rann Kennedy - 1853 - 168 pages
...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 to hope again. — TRANSLATION FROM THE ŒDIPUS REX OF SOPHOCLES. What man is he, whom prophet-tongued Parnassus doth...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...would aspire to, | Thai sweei aspeci of princes, I and their ruin, | More pangs, and fears I than wars, or women have, ; And when he falls, he falls like Lu'cifer, | Never to hope WOLSEV'g FAREWELL ADDRESS TO CROMWELL. • (SHAK8PEARE.) Cromwell, I did noi think to shed a tear 1...
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The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 25-26

1868 - 756 pages
...we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars and women have ; And when he falls, he falls, like Lucifer, Never to hope again." LEAVES FROM MY MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL. BY A NAVAL CHAPLAIN. CltAP. I. GIBRALTAR. Notwithstanding the...
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The book of English poetry, with critical and biogr. sketches of the poets

English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars of women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. SHAKSPEAIIE. THE HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose...
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