Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's... Hamlet. Titus Andronicus - Page 113by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 444 pages
...and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...such power of reviewing the past, and anticipating the future. Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument;*9 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...such power of reviewing the past, and anticipating the future. Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument;9 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That... | |
| E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 454 pages
...prime of life, the time at which he ought to exert his faculties to the best advantage and profit. " - Rightly to be great, " Is, not to stir without great...argument ; " But greatly to find quarrel in a straw" L e. Magnanimously to find quarrel, &c. A kindred sentiment we find in the First Part of K. Henry IV.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 524 pages
...act Freshly on me. Theokald. The latter emendation may derive support from a passage in Jfamlet: " How stand I then, " That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, " Excitements of my reason and my hlood,' " And let all sleep?" If slip he the true reading, (which, however, I do not helieve) the sense... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition pufFd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition pufFd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the shake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 572 pages
...delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...not to stir without great argument; But greatly to lind quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then That have a father kill'd, a... | |
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