 | William Landon Felter, Libbie J. Eginton - 1916 - 104 pages
...indeed. — Shakespeare. CARDINAL WOLSEY, ON BEING CAST OFF BY KING HENRY VIII. 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. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 200 pages
...off again. What's this? 'To the Pope!' 220 The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to 'a holiness. Nay then, farewell! I have touch'd the highest...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Re-enter to Wolsey the Duket of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Earl of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain. Nor. Hear... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 pages
...I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; And from that full meridian of my glory, 225 I haste now to my setting : I shall fall Like a bright...SUFFOLK, the EARL OF SURREY, and the Lord Chamberlain. Norfolk. Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal: who commands you To render up the great seal presently... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1921 - 194 pages
...answer: Ay, every inch a king ! When Wolsey gets his soul ready to fall like Lucifer : I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. When 'royal Egypt' lifts the dirge over Antony, who, but for her, were living and held the sceptre... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English literature - 1924 - 904 pages
...off again. What 's this ? ' To the Pope ! ' The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to 's holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Re-enter to Wolsey the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Ea<l of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain. Nor. Hear... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...writ to's holiness. Nay then, farewell! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; 224 And from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. 228 Enter to Wolsey the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Earl of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...writ to's holiness. Nay then, farewell! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; 224 And from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. 228 Enter to Wolsey the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Earl of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain.... | |
 | Robert Watson Winston - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 620 pages
...about the action of my State, he may soliloquize in the language of Cardinal Wolsey, and exclaim : " 'Nay, then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.' "Yes, Mr. President, I have alluded to treason and traitors, and shall not shrink from the responsibility... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Dramatists, English - 1995 - 424 pages
...outsider's view of his fate, as if he were writing a poem about it: Nay then, farewell. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. (3.2.223-8) He faces death more nobly than he has lived, mourned by his follower Thomas Cromwell, whom... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must forever hide me. (Ill, ii) 4 I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. (Ill, ii) 5 Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have... | |
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The 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 that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation... 
