 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 451830Full view - About this book
 | 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, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 406 pages
...As fast as ihey 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...central secret of his great power and influence. He also knew the meaning of the saying of Ulysses — " To have done 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 way, Or hedge aside... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 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... | |
 | Sophocles, John Frederick Boyes - Comparative literature - 1844 - 242 pages
...öi тгpÄ Gnom. Monostich. Poet. Gnom. Leips. 1829. Malo si quid benefacias, id beneficium intent. To have done, is to hang, Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, lu monumental mockery. Troilus and Cressida, act Hi. se. 6. The grave, that ugly place, Where all the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 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... | |
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