 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...In monumental mockery. Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but e gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks...till the star, that rose, at evening, bright, Toward fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : then what... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...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 hath...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 fal1'n in first... | |
 | 1866 - 956 pages
...is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, In monumental mockery . . . For emulation hath n thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by And leave you hindmost." To complete the image of exuberant life, we... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1903 - 736 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 a thousand sons That one by one pursue. If yon give way, < >r hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...Cressida (III, iii) : 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 forthright, Like to an ent'red tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; Cordelia exactly reflects the idea of the Reformers... | |
 | 1908 - 1058 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, Leaving you hindmost. The cry went once on thee, And still it might... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 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 a thousand sons That one by one pursue. . . Troilus in iii 150 That is too mixed a lot of metaphors and personifications to follow without... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 228 pages
...In monumental mock'ry. 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 forthright. Like to an entered tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost: 160 Or. like a gallant horse fall'n in first... | |
 | Mervyn Evans James - 1986 - 496 pages
...violence, was a way of life. 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 forthright, Like to an ent'red tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost . . . 20 The competitiveness did not invariably... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1987 - 260 pages
...give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, 160 And leave you hindmost; Or, like a gallant horse fallen...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... | |
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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... 
