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 past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done... The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes - Page 64by William Shakespeare - 1745Full view - About this book
| 532 pages
...the ears of a drowsy man." " Duller than a great thaw. Dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage." "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 past ; which are devoured As fast... | |
| Michele Marrapodi - 2007 - 310 pages
...Inge Leimberg, 'Zu Troilus and Cressida III.3.145ff, Anglia 79 (1961): 45-9, in which she argues that 'Time hath, my Lord, a wallet at his back / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion' is indebted to Harington. 12 See for instance Matthew Steggle, 'Shakespeare, Jonson, Harington, and... | |
| Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, Philippa Kelly - 2007 - 264 pages
...speech here - like his celebrated account of order - is filled with quotable quotes, or 'sentences': Time hath, my lord, A wallet at his back, wherein he puts Alms for oblivion ... For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And, with... | |
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