 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2001 - 384 pages
...instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which hath interest in nothing but the gravel that fills his mouth. He holds a glass before the eye of the most beautiful, and makes them... | |
 | John Aubrey - 1999 - 408 pages
...Sir Walter Raleigh exults "It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He holds a glass before the eyes of the most beautiful...them see therein their deformity and rottenness and acknowledge it." This praise of death even made men gloat over the corruption that was only too evident... | |
 | Margaret Hebblethwaite - 2000 - 432 pages
...instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked...none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world... | |
 | Dorothy Auchter, Dorothy Mays - 2001 - 403 pages
...they will be called to account for their sins after death. After death a sinful king will be proven "a beggar; a naked beggar, which hath interest in nothing but in the gravel that fills his mouth." Such statements were potentially explosive during the reign of King James, author of several works... | |
 | Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 274 pages
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Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. 
