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" There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.... "
The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces ... - Page 529
by William Shakespeare - 1771
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 328 pages
...in~all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life. CHAPTER II. This life, sae far's I understand, Is a* enchanted fairy land, Where pleasure is the magic...
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Manchester: Its Political, Social and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern

James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - 1836 - 562 pages
...all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophecy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life; which, in their seeds And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. THOMAS WEST—LORD DE LA WARRE. One of the earliest of...
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Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pages
...all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time ; And,...
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Shakespeare and the Triple Play: From Study to Stage to Classroom

Sidney Homan - 1988 - 248 pages
...all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginning lie intreasured. (3.1.80-85) Indeed, as EMW Tillyard has pointed...
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The Hebrew Bible and Its Interpreters

William Henry Propp, Baruch Halpern, David Noel Freedman - 1990 - 244 pages
...the first year, his accomplishments for the rest of time: "The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, with a near aim, of the main chance of things as yet not come to life, which in their seeds and weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time" (Henry IV,...
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Shakespeare's Courtly Mirror: Reflexivity and Prudence in All's Well that ...

David Haley - 1993 - 332 pages
...when the future seems to be hatching — when, as Warwick tells King Henry, "a man may prophesy, / With a near aim, of the main chance of things / As yet not come to life, who in their seeds / And weak beginning lie intreasured" (2H4 III. i. 8285) — at such moments, the...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - 1993 - 254 pages
...all men's lives Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time;...
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Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen

Victor Gordon Kiernan - 1993 - 280 pages
...urging that such forecasts have no incomprehensible warrant. From knowledge of the past we can prophesy: With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not conic to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured, but go on to become 'the hatch...
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...chance of things so As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginning lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time, And by the necessary form of this King Richard might create a perfect guess That great Northumberland, then false...
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre

Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 279 pages
...all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time....
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