 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...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 159by William Shakespeare - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 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 tide they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; Or, like a gallant horse fall' n in first rank,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty ! gg tew. EDMUND SPENSER. Strong feeling has here...expression : there is no fancy in this gloomy fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : then what... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 638 pages
...then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or edge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental muckery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on : Then what they do in present, cHAP. Iv.] STUDIES OF SHAKSPERE. [BOOK Vт.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand eons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on : Then what they do in present, cHAP. IT.] STUDIES OP SHAKSFEKE. Though less... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 132 pages
...àpxatocréfivp <yavptâ>v àrya\/j,aTi. W apirácrai, TOV evdev артгаа-ai crTißov, Where but one goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on. Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 578 pages
...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...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on: Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 pages
...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...leave you hindmost : — Or like a gallant horse, fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled. Then what they... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait as narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, [present, O'er-run and trampled on: Then what they do in Though less then yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | John Adams - 1851 - 572 pages
...intuition, they generally follow the advice of the same author: — Take the instant way, For honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes...by, And leave you hindmost ; Or like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on. The inference,... | |
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