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" Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. "
The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected - Page 296
by William Shakespeare - 1773
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and rip? , /!/-•(/ then^from hour to hour.we ove ;14*O ihen give pily To her, whose slate is such, that cannot choose Hut lend and gi lime, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer^ That fools should be so deep-contemplative ; And I did...
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Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 2

Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 338 pages
...world wags ; 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven: And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from...to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale." At this he got up, and seemed preparing to walk, when fearing to lose him, I showed myself, and we...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 1

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1837 - 698 pages
...common-places of Touchstone upon his watch? It is as high a stretch of fancy that brings the reflection how " from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from...to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale," which is scoffed at by Jaques, as that which dictates his own moralizings on the death of the deer....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1837 - 516 pages
....¡ml to, from hour to hour, we ripe, and ripe, Jind then, from lunar to hour, we rot, and rol, .Ind thereby hangs a tale. When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the lime, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. That fools should be so deep-contemplative ; Arid I...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...world wags : 'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine; And after an hour more, 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. 10 — ii. 7. 320 Wickedness, its own reward. What mischiefs work the wicked ones ; Heaping confusion...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...wags : 'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine ; And after an hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. 10 — ii.^. 320 Wickedness, its own reward. What mischiefs work the wicked ones ; Heaping confusion...
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Essays and Poems

Jones Very - History - 1839 - 202 pages
...wags : 'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine ; And after an hour more, 'twill be eleven ; And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from...hour, we rot, and rot, And thereby hangs a tale." These feelings caused Shakspeare to live beyond the influence of fame, and, though disturbed, as we...
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The London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science, Volume 2

1842 - 1224 pages
...regions of the earth, we grow to manhood at an early ago, and at an early age we decay ; — " thus from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot," — it being a law of nature, that the rapidity of the second part of the process, should be in proportion...
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Lecture on physical and intellectual life

Samuel Wright - Intellectual life - 1843 - 74 pages
...habitation of worms, perish for a season, and revive into active agency for another generation. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot.* * To treat the subject more specifically — death is followed by decomposition, whereby the materials...
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Notice of Windsor in Olden Times

John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...generations, and the vanity of human life, that so, like those very trees, — " ' * * * From hour to hour TVC ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.'" 169 Rebuke not the author for these moralisingg, nor say with Jaques — " I met a fool 'i the forest...
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