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" Of troublous and distressed mortality, That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon Imbecility: Yet seeing thus the course of things must run, He looks thereon not strange, but as fore-done. "And whilst... "
The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles ... - Page 134
1831
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 16

1908 - 558 pages
...pirate Pompey lesser pirates quails, And whilst distraught ambition compasses, And is encompass'd ; while as craft deceives, And is deceived; whilst man doth ransack man,* etc. Whereas we sat and sighed And looked upon each other, and conceived Not what we ail'd — yet...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 462 pages
...perplexed stats Of troublous and distrees'd mortality. That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility : Yet seeing thus the course of things must ruu, He looks thereon not stimnge, but as fora-donex And whilst dlstranght ambition com pan ss. And...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 1

Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 pages
...perplexed state Of troublous and distress'd mortality, That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility...foredone. And whilst distraught ambition compasses, And is encompass'd ; whilst as craft deceives, And is decdv'd ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on...
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Words and Days: A Table-book of Prose and Verse

1895 - 416 pages
...must be spectators. BEN JONSON. AND whilst distraught ambition compasses, And is encompass'd ; whilst as craft deceives, And is deceived : whilst man doth...distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes : he looks thereon As from the shore of peace, with unwet eye, And bears no...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...perplexed state Of troublous and distress'd mortality, That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility ; Yet seeing thus the course of things must run, i He looks thereon not strange, but as foredone. And whilst distraught ambition compasses, And is encompass'd...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 1

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...perplexed state Of troublous and distress'd mortality, That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility...foredone. And whilst distraught ambition compasses, And is encompass'd ; whilst as craft deceives, And is deceiv'd ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on...
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Gems of Genius in Poetry and Art: From the Kings and Queens of Thought : and ...

Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 pages
...Power, whose cause must not belli. And whilst distraught ambition compasses, And Is encompassed ; whilst as craft deceives, And is deceived ; whilst man doth...man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great expecting hopes ; he looks thereon, As from the shore...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 438 pages
...perplexed state Of troublous and distress'd mortality, That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility:...fore-done. And whilst distraught ambition compasses, And is encompass'd ; whilst as craft deceives, And is deceived ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...perplexed state Of troublous and distress'd mortality, That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility : Yet seeing thus the course of things must ran, He looks thereon not strange, but as fore-done. And whilst distraught ambition compasses, And...
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The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631): Poetry and prose

Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - 1903 - 328 pages
...power, whose cause must not be ill. And whilst distraught Ambition compasses And is encompassed ; whilst as craft deceives And is deceived ; whilst man doth...man And builds on blood and rises by distress ; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great expecting hopes ; he looks thereon As from the shore...
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