 Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...  Hamlet. Titus Andronicus - Page 113by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 476 pages
...craven scruple — 3 Some cowardly scruple. See Vol. VI, p. 68, n. 7. Malone. So, in Xing Henry VI, PI: Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument;6 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 484 pages
...scruple — ] Some cowardly scruple. See Vol. VI, p. 68, n. 7. Malone. So, in Xing Henry VI, P. I : Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument;s But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 470 pages
...scruple — ] Some cowardly scruple. See Vol. VI, p. 68, r.. 7. Malone. So, in King Henry VI, P. I : Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...and danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to he great, Is, not to stir without great argument;6 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 498 pages
...future. s • some craven scruple— ] Some cowardly scruple. Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...Rightly to be great, .• Is, not to stir without great argument;9 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 396 pages
...great, Ii, not to stir withont grrat argnment; Bnt greatly to find qnarrel in a straw, When hononr's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father...mother stain'd, ,. ', Excitements of my reason, and mv blood, And let all sleep? while, to my shame, 1 see The innmnent death of twenty thonsand men, That,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood,1 And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I sec The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood,1 And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...int isihle event ; Exposing what is mottul, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, and danger dire, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great. Is, not...argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honor's at the stake. How stand 1 then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd. Excitements of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that 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,... | |
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