 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, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one...  State Normal Monthly - Page 55by Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pages
...different advice, and himself acted upon it. — " 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 ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast Keep then... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. 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, For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep then... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...as fast as they are made. Forgot as soon as done : Persev'rance, 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 ; For Honour travels in a strait so narrow, That one but goes abreast ; keep then... | |
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright ; to have done, is to hang, Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail, In monumental mockery. Troilvs and Cressida. Lady Cunnington was too much occupied with the care... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...fast аз they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : , to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to wait, to be undone ! gg tew. EDMUND SPENSER. St Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : Keep,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 638 pages
...As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail ' The unknown .l/»<-\ Ajax, who has abilities, which were never brought into view or use. JOHNSON.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...true decision. Pride hath no other glass To shew itself, but pride. Perseverance Keeps honour bright ; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. oo Pitchers have ears. Plenty,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 156 pages
...true decision. Pride hath no other glass To shew itself, but pride. Perseverance Keeps honour bright ; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mai] In monumental mockery. Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. OO... | |
 | 1900 - 614 pages
...Shakspeare, ' Antony and Cleopatra,' III. ii. Authority forgets a dying king. Tennyson, 'Morte d Arthur." 10. To have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail in monumental mockery. Shakspeare, ' Troilus and Cressida,' III. iii. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished.... | |
 | 1900 - 676 pages
...ijhakspeare, ' Antony and Cleopatra,' III. ii. Authority forgets a dying king. Tennyson, 'Morte d Arthur." 10. To have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Shakspeare, ' Troilus and Cressida,' III. iii. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished,... | |
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