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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 Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 159
by William Shakespeare - 1824
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Warwickshire Poets

Charles Henry Poole - English poetry - 1914 - 450 pages
...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 ;...And leave you hindmost ; Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : then what...
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Back to Shakespeare

Herbert Morse - Dramatists, English - 1915 - 320 pages
...: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take th' instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow,...And leave you hindmost ; Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : then what...
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Back to Shakespeare

Herbert Morse - Dramatists, English - 1915 - 320 pages
...: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take th' instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow,...And leave you hindmost ; Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : then what...
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The Problem of Style

John Middleton Murry - Criticism - 1922 - 168 pages
...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 :...And leave YOU hindmost : Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on : then what...
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The Problem of Style

John Middleton Murry - Criticism - 1922 - 168 pages
...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 :...And leave you hindmost : Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on : then what...
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The Idea of Great Poetry

Lascelles Abercrombie - Poetry - 1925 - 254 pages
...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...And leave you hindmost : Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on. . . . ยง4...
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The Theory of Poetry

Lascelles Abercrombie - Poetics - 1926 - 340 pages
...in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousands sons That one by one pursue: if you give way Or hedge...by And leave you hindmost: Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on. . . , But...
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Words and Poetry

George Rylands - Diction - 1928 - 272 pages
...their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost. Although in this play Shakespeare cracks the bonds of his vocabulary and appropriates so much that...
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Words and Poetry

George Rylands - Diction - 1928 - 268 pages
...honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path; For mi ulati'>n hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue; if you...enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost. Although in this play Shakespeare cracks the bonds of his vocabulary and appropriates so much that...
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Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, Volume 6

Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1903 - 736 pages
...Keep then the path. For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue. If yon give way, < >r hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an...first rank. Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on. Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop...
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