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" I have ventured, 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,... "
A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 184
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1790 - 614 pages
...frofts fo nip tbt rectti of vertuoui-meaning minds." See £?«/«'£«'« Worlt t 1587. STXEVEMS. Bu But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary, and old withfervice, to the mercy Of a rude ftream, that muft for ever...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1791 - 724 pages
...as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that fwim on bladders, Thefe many fummers in a fea 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 fervice, to the mercy Of a rude ftream, that muft for ever...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 676 pages
...notes of thofe, who, while they have fhewn them to be unneceflary, have illuftrated our author. MALONE. But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with fervice, to the mercy Of a rude ftream, that muft for ever...
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Works, Volume 5, Parts 2-3

William Shakespeare - 1795 - 376 pages
...as 1 do I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys, that fwim on bladders, Thefe many fummers in a fea 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 fervice, to the mercy Of a rude ftream, that muft for ever...
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The Dramatic Writings of Will. Shakespeare: With Introductory Prefaces to ...

William Shakespeare - 1798 - 478 pages
...as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that fwim on bladders, Theie many iummers in a lea 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 lirvice, to the mercy Of a rude ftream, that muft for ever...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: King Richard III. King Henry VIII ...

William Shakespeare - 1799 - 382 pages
...as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that fwim on bladders, This many fummers in a fea 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 fervice, to the mercy Or" a rude Itream, that muft for ever...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Johnson's Works, vi. 47, note. • 'I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory. But far beyond my depth.' Henry VIII. Act iii. sc. 2. ' Musical Travels through England, by Joel Collier [not Collyer], Organist,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...Johnson's Works, vi. 47, note. 1 ' I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth.' Henry VIII. Act iii. sc. 2. 1 Musical Travels through England, by Joel Collier [not Collyer], Organist,...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...full surely His greatness is a rip'ning, nips his root: And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These...depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me Weary, and old with service, to the misery Of a rude stream, which must for ever...
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The Port Folio, Volume 2

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...is a ripening, nips his root; " And then — he falls as 1 do." AM»d again in the same soliloquy, " I have ventured, " Like little wanton boys, that swim...in a sea of glory, " But — far beyond my depth." 80 in the address of Sempronius to the Roman senate " Rise, and revenge her slaughter^ citizens, "...
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