Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying. On the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp,... Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk - 第3页作者:Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1840全本阅读 - 图书信息
| John Ford - 1927 - 432 页
...melancholly. Pen. Glories 1535 Of humane greatnesse are but pleasing dreames, And shadowes soone decaying : on the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawne out at length By varied pleasures, sweetned in the mixture, 1540 But Tragicall in issue ; Beauty,... | |
| William Thomson Hastings - 1928 - 454 页
...the world is vanity. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams And shadows soon decaying: on the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity — To die and be quit of it all is their desire; the bell that tolls throughout the drama is death... | |
| William Archer - 1899 - 270 页
...finest things in the play fall before Mr. Poel's relentless pencil ; for instance, Penthea's lines — On the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some...pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Again, where Crotolon says to Orgilus — Friend, I will have it so Without our ruin by your politic... | |
| James Redmond - 1981 - 280 页
...Calantha of Ithocles's daring aspiration for her hand and love, and confessing that she herself, though 'on the stage /Of my mortality my youth hath acted /Some scenes of vanity', is now 'weary of a lingering life, / Who count the best a misery'. She asks the startled Calantha to... | |
| John Ford - 1986 - 392 页
...PENTHEA. Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying. On the stage 15 Of my mortality, my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness... | |
| Sophie Tomlinson - 2005 - 324 页
...In her formal speech Penthea uses a play metaphor to intensify her fatal intuition of her own end: On the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted...of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue. (3-5-I5-I9) Penthea's view of her life as 'tragical... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 页
...pleasing dreams And shadows soon decaying ; on the stage Of my mortality, my youth hath acted borne scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, Hut tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness r>oth frame an idol, are unconstant... | |
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