 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 in the evening, And no man see me more.  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 76by William Shakespeare - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...Bartlemy, to make the fair personal, has had his day, and must speedily say farewell! " I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that...exhalation in the evening, and no man see me more." The following allusion to the roast pig is from Poor Robin's Almanack for 17-40 : " If women that with... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him. WOLSEY. 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. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...King, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist, poet I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness,...full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. Wolsey, King Henry Vili William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet The final event to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Late Proclamation 11 792). referring to Paine's political advetsary Edmund Burke. 6 I have touched rather than less, real to us. The function Á ... S " "F 1993 Columbia Uni WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-16Í6), English dramatist, poet. Wolsey, in King Henry VIII, aci 3. sc. 2.... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 278 pages
...again. Christopher Fry Wolsey: (when his duplicity is discovered): 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. William Shakespeare THREE Life and the Living "Life Is a Predicament" Life is not a spectacle or a... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Drum! OMAR KHAYYAM, (11 -12th century) Persian astronomer and poet. The Rubaiyat of 6 I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Wolsey, in King Henry VIII, act 3, sc. 2,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...farewell. I have touched 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...exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more . Enter to Cardinal Wolsey the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Earl of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain... | |
 | Paul Budra, Paul Vincent Budra - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 148 pages
...of the three. As soon as he senses the king's disfavour, Wolsey predicts his future: 'I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, / And, from...meridian of my glory / I haste now to my setting' (3.2.224-6). After his fall, Wolsey delivers a soliloquy that draws, in the best Mirror tradition,... | |
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