 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...developing the kind of reflective and intellectual style we see in Ulysses' speech to Achilles on Time: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein...Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.... | |
 | Abraham Rothberg - 2005 - 273 pages
...drawn his last breath, Shakespeare could still speak so directly to him, so powerfully and wisely: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein...done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail In monumental mockery... Alms for oblivion and monumental mockery indeed! When would he learn?... | |
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A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty... 
