 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puii'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand J then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what...fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. 'Tis not to be great, Never to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...mass, and eharge, Led by a delieate and tender prinee ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what...fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Shaks. Hamlet. I have no spur To priek the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, whieh o'erleaps... | |
 | William Burns - Great Britain - 1855 - 98 pages
...pence, when he should rather have taken as his motto, a passage from John's favourite poet : — " Rightly to be great, Is not to stir without great...argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour is at stake." He failed to see that, while he was struggling against details, resulting from... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...dear ; but the dear man Halda honour far more preeioos dear than lit!'. Shala. ÏYoîZus and Craaida. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great...argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. Shake. Hamlet. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluek bright honour... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 512 pages
...whose bourne No traveller returns, puzzles the will. — Sam, iii. 1.* Eightly to be great Is not, not to stir without great argument, But greatly to...find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. — Ib. iv. 4. He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 pages
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what...a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason and my blood,4 And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff d, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what...argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, That have, a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 380 pages
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what...argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then That have, a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...in the managing, as the Contentment of it cannot requite. (ffiteatneSS. — Young. — Shakspeare. RIGHTLY to be great, Is, not to stir without great...find quarrel in a straw, When Honour's at the stake. Shafapeare. 0 PLACE ! 0 Form ! How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Wrench awe from Fools,... | |
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Rightly to be great Is, not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. 
