 | Frederick Turner - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...a spectacular dividend on the risky investment England has made in him: So when this loose behavior I throw off And pay the debt I never promised, By...like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1999 - 308 pages
...through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors that did seem to strangle him. So when this loose behavior I throw off And pay the debt I never promised, By...like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself. Being wanted he may be more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of...I falsify men's hopes, And like bright metal on a sulten Henry, Prince of ^Ä ale» Henry, Prince of Wales ground. My reformation glittering o'er my... | |
 | Tim Spiekerman - Political Science - 2001 - 222 pages
...through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. So when this loose behavior I throw off. And pay the debt I never promised. By...like bright metal on a sullen ground. My reformation, glittr'ingoe'r my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay the debt 1 never promis'd, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall...like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil... | |
 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...appearances and that he understands (with breathtaking coolness) the advantages of a prodigal-son image: So when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay the...like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay...like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil... | |
 | John Alan Roe - Drama - 2002 - 238 pages
...to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay...like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay...like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 186 pages
...work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents : 210 So when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay...men's hopes; And like bright metal on a sullen ground, 215 My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes Than that... | |
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So, when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am... 
