 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, this brave o'erhanging firmament, — this majestic roof, fretted with golden fire, — why, it appears...congregation of vapours. 'What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving, how express and admirable... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Ethics - 1857 - 402 pages
...a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air — look you — this brave overhanging firmament ; this majestical roof, fretted with golden...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. Man delights me not, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." — Hamlet, Act... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Books - 1858 - 512 pages
...steril promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, — this brave o'erhanging, — this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,...pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving, how express and admirable... | |
 | Great Britain - 1858 - 516 pages
...steril promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, — this brave o'erhanging, — this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,...pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving, how express and admirable... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1858 - 442 pages
...a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air — look you — this brave overhanging firmament; this majestical roof, fretted with golden...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. Man delights me not, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." — Hamlet, Act... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 882 pages
...seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave overhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden...paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" The genius of Hamlet is shown not only in such passages interspersed through... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 474 pages
...air, look you, this brave overhanging firmament, this majcstical roof, fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent...paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" The genius of Hamlet is shown not only in such passages interspersed through... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. "' 3 Chapter 4S, On the dangerous Prevalence of Imagination. their limbs, some to labour under acute... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1860 - 414 pages
...: this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave overhanging firmament, this rnajestical roof, fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no...congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! How infinite That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon arch, Studded... | |
 | A. C. Harwood - Literary Criticism - 1964 - 68 pages
...heavily * Act II, Scene 2. with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look...congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in... | |
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I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy,... 
