As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow... The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 65by William Shakespeare - 1804Full view - About this book
| Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...sky. Park Benjamin. The thrifty Thyme a home can find, Where smiles the sun, and breathes the wind. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...sons, That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or edge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For Honour travels in a strait so narrow, That one but goes abreast ; keep then the path, For Emulation...hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an entered lide they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; Or, like a gallant horse fall' n in first rank,... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For Honour travels in a strait so narrow, That one but goes abreast ; keep then the path, For Emulation...; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct fonh-right, Like to an entered tide they all rush by, "Ulytset. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his... | |
| Marmion Wilme Savage - English fiction - 1852 - 468 pages
...honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep the path, For emulation has a thousand sons That one by one pursue : if you give...hedge aside from the direct forthright^ Like to an entered tide they all rush by, And leave you hindmost." Reuben, to whom the worts of the great dramatist... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 446 pages
...Ulyss. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion ; A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds...sons, That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or edge3 aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang 3uite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, In monumental mockery....hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entcr'd tide, they «11 rush by, And leave you hindmost. Or, like a gallant horse, fall'n in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. MA ii. 1. EMULATION. For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost : — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 596 pages
...to hang Quite out of fashion, like a trusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; Fur akespeare hedue aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enler'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...Take the instant way: For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep theu the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| George William Rusden - Church and education - 1853 - 382 pages
...leisure for mental cultivation, a matter of far greater difficulty now than in the seventeenth century. For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one...; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthiight, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost. Worldly intricacies... | |
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