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" Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when... "
The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers - Page 126
by British essayists - 1802
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors : to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue." % TRAGEDY OF CATO. " Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...is, and the death that soon will be. Wolsev: So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow the blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...Campion, part 2, p. 321 (1949, reissued 1981). 1103 So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this! So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms And bears his blushing honors thick...
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Quotations of Wit and Wisdom

John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 278 pages
...Shakespeare When thou dost hear a toll or knell Then think upon thy passing bell. John Ray Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick...
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The Yellow Brick Road: A Storyteller's Approach to the Spiritual Journey

William J. Bausch - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 324 pages
...on fire the hearts of all men" (Dante, The Inferno, Canto 6) — sloth, and anger. Pride Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick...
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Jane Austen and Leisure

David Selwyn - History - 1998 - 384 pages
...meaning his great farewell in Act III Scene 2 after he hears of his dismissal by the King: Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness. This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...350 Exeunt all but Wolsey CARDINAL WOLSEY So farewell — to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; tomorrow blossoms , And bears his blushing honours...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...seguro ya salvo, aunque tu amo lo erró. 2. So farewell, to the little good you bear me. / Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness. /This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth /The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours...
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Wessex Papers #3: Outsmart

Daniel Parker - Juvenile Fiction - 2009 - 260 pages
...himself like this? Don't do this, Headmaster Olsen, Just get in the car— "'Farewell!'" he cried. "'A long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: Today he puts forth the tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms, and bears his blushing honors thick...
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