 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pages
...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...leave you hindmost : — Or like a gallant horse, fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled. Then what they... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1845 - 1174 pages
...starting in the desperate race, to that of reaching the goal of legal eminence. " If you give way Or edge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost."* like the stick, if he be not supported by his own inherent powers. Where property or life is at stake,... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1903 - 736 pages
...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;...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
...roles and ratios is suddenly succeeded by a new lineal world, as in Troilus and Cressida (III, iii) : Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...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
...dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For...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
...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;...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
...honour bright; to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion. like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...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
...it. In an honour society, violence, or the ever-present possibility of violence, was a way of life. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...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
...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;...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 in first... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 pages
...roles and ratios is suddenly succeeded by a new lineal world, as in Troilus and Cressida (III, iii) : Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an ent'red tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; The idea of homogeneous segmentation of persons... | |
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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... 
