O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers - Page 233by British essayists - 1823Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword } .- • • The f The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And J, of ladies most deject and wretched,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 260 pages
...; we see a man who, in other circumitances, would have exercised all the moral and social rirtues, one whom Nature had formed to be ' Th' Expectancy...of the fair State, ' The Glass of Fashion, and the Mold of Form, ' Th' observ'd of all Observers,' placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould 5 of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : • The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers! quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form,3 The observ'd of all observers! quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form,3 The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down I And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,... | |
| Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1806 - 432 pages
...O what a noble mind it here o'erthrown * The courtier's soldier's scholar's eye, tongue, sword, The expectancy and rose, of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form , Th' ohserv'd of all observers , quite , quite down. — Now se« that noble and most sovereign reason,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,... | |
| Jane Porter - Poland - 1806 - 264 pages
...attention and gratitude. He He had been used to such scenes in his days of happiness, when he was ' the expectancy and rose of the fair state, the glass of fashion, and the mould of form, the observed of all observers ;' and their re-appearance, awakened, with tender remembrances,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 380 pages
...management of the character by which, above all others, we could be interested in its behalf. Had Shakipeare made Hamlet pursue his vengeance with a steady determined...of the fair State, ' The Glass of Fashion, and the Mold of Form, ' Th' observ'd of all Observers,' placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities... | |
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