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The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes: Troilus and Cressida ... - Page 84
by William Shakespeare - 1773
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a and w galignani - 1825 - 306 pages
...height, we are forgotten. Shakespear gave different.advice, and himself acted upon it. "Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright. To have done, is to hang Unite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For hononr travels...
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Floral Emblems

Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 pages
...have no rest." Lamentations, v. 5. PERSEVERANCE. CANARY-GLASS.—Phalaris canaricnsis. " Perseverance keeps honour bright; To have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, Like rusty mail in monumental mockery." Skakspeare. We cannot account for this emblem, and...
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The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J ...

John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...deeds past, Which are devour'd as fast as they are made, ,i oT Forgot as soon as done : Persev'rance, dear my lord, Keeps Honour bright: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail =• 11 In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For Honour travels...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1826 - 482 pages
...height, we are forgotten. Shakespear gave different advice, and himself acted upon it. " Perseverance, dear my lord, 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...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pages
...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 mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 422 pages
...infinitely more forcible than I can, that I must conclude with rather a large quotation : ' Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.' " Again, ' Time is like a fashionable host, That...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...past : which are devour'd As fast as they arc made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear mv lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a trusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 15

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...great ingots and to wedges square, Some in round plates withouten muniment. Faerie Queene. Perseverance fashion Like rusty mail iu monumental mockery. Sliaks¡>eare. On your family's old monument Hang mournful...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...deeds pas'. : which are devourM • As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, . Anne» I have already. Glo. That was in thy rage : Speak it again, and, fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...p.oa deeds past : which are devour'd AI 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 mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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