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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 ; For emulation hath a thousand... "
The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the ... - Page 314
1852
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Oliver Cromwell: An Historical Romance, Volumes 1-3

Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1840 - 1020 pages
...passed might have been almost deemed a wild and baseless dream. CROMWELL. CHAPTER VII. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright — to have done is to hang Quite oat of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Trmlus and CronJu. THE terrible campaign of...
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The Philosophy of Shakspere: Extracted from His Plays

William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As they are done. Perseverance, my lord, Keeps honout bright: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion,...instant way ! For honour travels in a strait so narrow. Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one...
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Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1841 - 398 pages
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion,...mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For Emulation...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 608 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,...instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep, then, the path, For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by...
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 426 pages
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion,...mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For Emulation...
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 406 pages
...good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as ihey are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done,...instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...good deeds past ; which are devoured As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done,...instant way : For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one...
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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...good deeds past ; which are devoured As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done,...instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 494 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,...instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep , then , the path , For emulation hath a thousand sons , That one...
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Speeches, Reviews, Reports, &c

Joseph Blunt - Cherokee Indians - 1843 - 300 pages
...should say, that the time has nearly arrived, when kings must resign their crowns, or deserve them. " To have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail in monumental mockery." If kings will be slothful or stupid, their subjects forget their titles in commenting upon their characters,...
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