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...generalisation, ends with a melancholy application to himself : — "This is the state of mau : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow...greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These many summers...

...that fine apostrophe " Farewel, a long farewel, to all my greatness! This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow...honours thick upon him; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; Arid—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening—nips...

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...yet, to our surprise, in the short sp IT of an hour they are all exhausted. Thus wastes man! to-day, he puts forth the tender leaves of hope; to-morrow, blossoms, "and bears his blushing honors thick upon him;" the next day comes a frost, which nips the shoot, and when he thinks his greatness...

...apostrophe — " Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow...greatness is a ripening — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These many summers...

...apostrophe— " Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow...greatness is a ripening— nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim en bladders, These many summers...

...my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon...greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in...

...is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to morrow blossoms, And hears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day,...greatness is a ripening— nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, These many summers...