| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 406 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 494 pages
...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...sons , That one by one pursue : if you give way , Or edge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide , they all rush by , And leave you hindmost... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, In monumental mockery. Take the instant way, , We drove a-tield, and both together heard What time...till the star, that rose, at evening, bright, Toward enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost. — • Or, like a gallant horse, fall'n in... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For Honour travels in a strait so narrow, That one but goes abreast ; keep then the path, For Emulation...hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an entered tide they all rush by, And leave you hindmost;—— Or, like a gallant horse fal1'n in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 426 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, In monumental mockery . . . For emulation hath n thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by And leave you hindmost." To complete the image of exuberant life, we... | |
| William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1845 - 432 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost : — Or like a gallant horse, fall'n in first... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost. Or, like a gallant horse, fallen in first rank,... | |
| Joshua Bates - Christian life - 1846 - 644 pages
...always and necessarily connected with the failure of another ; or as Shakspeare expresses it : Honor travels in a strait so narrow ; Where one but goes...: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth right, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; Or like a gallant... | |
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