 | Emanuel Strauss - 1994 - 644 pages
...water b) injuries don't use to be written on ice c) injuries we write in marble, kindnesses in dust d) men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water e) the hurt man writes with steel on a marble German: a) Böses schreibt man in Stein, Gutes in Sand... | |
 | John Varriano - 1995 - 304 pages
...composed by his friend Charles Brown, while the final couplet, derived from Shakespeare's Henry VIII ('Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water'), was requested by Keats himself.12 Brown came to regret his invective against the poet's English critics,... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 889 pages
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 | Matt Braun - 2012 - 321 pages
..."Notoriety." "And of course, I've read of your exploits." "To my great regret," Holliday said affably. " 'Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.' " "King Henry the Eighth!" Langrishe marveled. "A man of letters who lives by the sword. You must pardon... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 3, SC.4, I. 151 (1604). Speaking to his mother Gertrude. 4 Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Griffith, in King Henry VIII, act 4, sc.... | |
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Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 
