 So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show...  Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard the Second - Page 166by William Shakespeare - 1876 - 225 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 372 pages
...coefutation. JOHNSON. Tfih tlwtoetf, and gnllietioc tlios s Ioltici * hirh it can neither justify not forsake And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Tbaa that which hath no foil to set it off, I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 478 pages
...debt I ne\er promised, By bow much better than my word I am, By so Hindi shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it on". Ill so offend, to make offence a skill ; Redeeming time, when men think least I will. SCENE IIl.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 434 pages
...indeed, Whom these things cannot blemish,7) yet must Antony No way excuse his soils,s when we do bear " Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, " Than that which hath no foil to set it off." Malone. See Hamlet, Act V, sc. ii. Steevens. s — purchas'd;] Procured by his own fault or endeavour.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...natural picture of a great mind offering excuses to itself, And, like bright metal on a sullen ground,4 My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show...more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which uath no foil to set it off. I '11 so oftend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time, when men think... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 448 pages
...as gross " As black from white, my eye will scarcely see it." Again, in King Henry IV. Part I. : " And like bright metal on a sullen ground, " My reformation,...eyes, " Than that which hath no foil to set it off." MALONB. * — purchsis'd ;] Procured by his own fault or endeavour. JOHMSON. To give a kingdom for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 460 pages
...word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes 5 ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground 6, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show...eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. s — shall I falsify men's HOPES ;] To falsify hope is to exceed hope, to give much inhere men hopedfor... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...ofl.eriug excuses ti. itself, and palliating those follies which it can. neither justify nor forsake. And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off, I'll so offend, to make offence a skill ; Redeeming time, when men think least I will. [Exit. SCENE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes; B And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...eyes, Than that which hath no foil to .set it off. I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming tune, when men think least I will. [Exit. SCENE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...debt I never promised, By how much better limn my word I am, By 90 much shall I falsify men's hopes;10 And, like bright metal on a sullen" ground, My reformation,...eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to mnke offence a skill : Redeeming time, when men think least I will. [Ex. (7) Fine... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 556 pages
...debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation,...more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to make offence a skill Redeeming time, when men think least I will. [Exit, SCENE III.... | |
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