Arm, arm, with speed ; — and, fellows, soldiers, friends, Better consider what you have to do, Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue, Can lift your blood up with persuasion. Enter a Messenger. The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere - Page 289by William Shakespeare - 1851Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Farren, Mrs. R. G. Varnham - 1856 - 576 pages
...come soon and often. Now, good-by, Helen, and may Heaven bless and console you." 31* CHAPTER XXXV. " The time of life is short ; To spend that shortness...dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour." Kiso Hssur IV. WHEN I reached home my husband had not yet awakened from his slumbers. I seated myself... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 596 pages
...have to do, Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue, Can lift your blood up with persuasion. 18 Enter a Messenger. Mess. My lord, here are letters...short; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, 19 If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. An if we live, we... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 420 pages
...persuasion. Enter a Messenger. Men. My lord, here are letters for yoi:. Hot. I eannot read them now. — O gentlemen, the time of life is short ; To spend that...dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. And if we live, we live to tread on kings ; If die, brave death, wheli princes die with us ! Now for... | |
| 1860 - 204 pages
...Persecuting virtue is like ascending a steep ; pursuing vice, like rushing down a precipice. CHINESE. The time of Life is short. To spend that shortness...dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. SHAKESPEARE. Unless your cask is perfectly clean, whatever you pour into it turns sour.— Horace.... | |
| James Hamilton Fennell - 1862 - 60 pages
...then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing! O! gentlemen, the time of life is short ! To spend that...dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour ! Macbeth, v., 5. Having now discussed those passages in Shakespeare's works which relate to the animal... | |
| John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pages
...is more precious than time ; and those who misspend it are the greatest of all prodigals." Again : The time of life is short : To spend that shortness...dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. Fuller has this quaint instruction upon our present topic : " Lay down such rules to thyself, of observing... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pages
...owe so sweet a hope, So much uiiucoustrued in bis wantonness. Hot. Cousin, I think thou art enamoured thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; loup, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. An if we live,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1864 - 686 pages
...persuasion. Enter a Messenger. Mess. My lord, here are letters for you. 80 Hot. I cannot read them now. O gentlemen, the time of life is short ! To spend that...dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 85 An if we live, we live to tread on kings; If die, brave death, when princes die with us! Now, for... | |
| Charles Wordsworth - Bible - 1864 - 392 pages
...then, being our life — so short — how nobly apposite to us all are the words of Hotspur ! — O gentlemen, the time of life is short ; To spend that...dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. K. Henry 17. ist Part, Act v. Sc. 3. And in truth it does so, in the estimate of a wise man. Again,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 pages
...improvement of time inculcated with no little tenderness and earnestness in the following lines? ,O, Gentlemen, the time of life is short; To spend that...dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees, The inaudible... | |
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