 ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent...  The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by ... - Page 119by William Shakespeare - 1771Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...this most excellent canopy, the air, look you,— this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. — What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite... | |
 | Patrick MacDonell - 1843 - 88 pages
...promontory;—this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilential congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, — this hrave o'erhanging — this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." We can conceive this train of thought to be in harmony with the... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 592 pages
...most excellent canopy, the air, look you — this brave overhanging firmament ¡—this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire ; why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapour." A respectable contemporary has likened the author of Percival Keene... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1843 - 420 pages
...this most excellent canopy, the air—look you—this brave overhanging firmament; this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire ; why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. Man delights me not, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, — this brave o'erhanging* — this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...this most excellent canopy, the air, look you,— this hrave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. — What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...Ihin mont excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, t! • majeslien) roof, fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation ofvupours. What a piece of work is man ! Hownoble in reason ! how infinite in... | |
 | 1878 - 892 pages
...promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you — this brave o'erhanging — this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." Nor when turning from natnre to the earlier pages of the Bible... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire ; — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite... | |
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