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 : For emulation hath a thousand... The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Sivu 159tekijä(t) William Shakespeare - 1824Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 sivua
...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 —...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 426 sivua
...hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on. Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 796 sivua
...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 ;...And leave you hindmost ; Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,(44) O'er-run and trampled on : then... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 sivua
...then, the path, For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or edge aside ' from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on '. Then, what they do in present, Though less than your's in past, must o'ertop... | |
| 1859 - 188 sivua
...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 honour...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 sivua
...hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes...first rank. Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 sivua
...In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one hut goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation...first rank. Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on: Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 sivua
...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,...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
| William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1861 - 450 sivua
...instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep, then, tlje path, For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on.] Then, what they do in present, And with his arms out- str etch' d, as he... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 sivua
...stepdame to her son ; Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, As false as Cressid. Honour. Honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but...enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost. ACT IV. Character of Troilus. The youngest son of Priam, a true knight ; Not yet mature, yet matchless... | |
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