 | Thomas MacFaul - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 9 pages
...be a sole self, a sense that is wonderfully depicted in his earlier soliloquy: I have ventur'd, Like wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers...depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 355 pages
...ACT 3. sc. 2 His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride 430 At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude... | |
 | András Horn - 2008 - 210 pages
...full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This...depth; my high-blown pride At length broke under me [. . .] Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! (III, 2, 352-363, 366) 56 You have done a brave... | |
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Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for... 
