 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 492 pages
...In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path; 'For emulation hath...hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an entcr'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost: — Or like a gallant horse, fall'n in first... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...monumental mockery. Take the .instant way, For honour travels in a strait as narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path; For emulation hath...one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the'direct forthright, Like to an eiiter'd tide., they all rush by, And leave you hindmost: — Or,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1828 - 384 pages
...In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep then the path ; For Emulation...forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by, And lead you hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 384 pages
...narrow, Where one hut goes ahreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one hy one pursue; If you give way, Or hedge aside from the...forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush hy, And leave you hindmost: — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...engaged in the same cause with Patroclus, thus expostulates with the champion of the Grecian forces: For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one...pursue. If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth right, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost: there- you lie, Like... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 522 pages
...engaged in the same cause with Patroclus, thus expostulates with the champion of the Grecian forces: For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one...pursue. If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth right, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost: there you lie, Like... | |
 | Paul Duport - 1828 - 458 pages
...honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then thé path ; For émulation hath a thousand sons , That one by one pursue : If you give way , Or hedge aside from thé direct forlhright , Like to an enter'd tide, they ail rush by , And leave you hindmost; — Or,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, \Vherc one but goci abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath...sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or he.dse aside from Ihe direct forthright, I,ike to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you... | |
 | John Wood (of Edinburgh.) - Church schools - 1829 - 296 pages
...EMULATION, PLACES AND PRIZES. • Keep then the path : For emulation hath a thousand sons, That, one hy one, pursue. If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, — • Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost. — SHAKESPEARE. IN the Sessional School, as... | |
 | Law - 1830 - 442 pages
...may depend upon it, le ban temps viendra; and they must move on with the rest :— Like to an untir'd tide, they all rush by And leave you hindmost, Or,...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on - — " 'Or, to repeat the same sentiment in the energetic language of Bossuet... | |
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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, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand... 
