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" 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. "
Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things - Page 144
by William Hazlitt - 1845 - 386 pages
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Floral Emblems

Henry Phillips - Emblems - 1825 - 414 pages
...have no rest." Lamentations, v. 5. PERSEVERANCE. CANARY-GLASS.—Phalaris canaricnsis. " Perseverance keeps honour bright; To have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, Like rusty mail in monumental mockery." Skakspeare. We cannot account for this emblem, and perseverance...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...done, is to bang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail Iu monumental mockery. Take the instant wiy : For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep the the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If yuu give way. Or hedge...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 486 pages
...and seldom went into the details. Yet Raphael, whose oil-pictures were exact and laboured, atchieved, according to the length of time he lived, very nearly...For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one hut goes abreast. Keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue. If...
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The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J ...

John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...deeds past, Which are devour'd as fast as they are made, ,i oT 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 =• 11 In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For Honour travels in a strait so narrow, That...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...good deeds past: which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: Preservance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done,...Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait as narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 352 pages
...light so infinitely more forcible than I can, that I must conclude with rather a large quotation : • Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright :...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.' " Again, ' Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 422 pages
...light so infinitely more forcible than I can, that I must conclude with rather a large quotation : ' Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright :...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.' " Again, ' Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 38

Classical philology - 1828 - 384 pages
...devoured 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',...In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep then the path ; For Emulation...
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Essais littéraires sur Shakspeare; ou, Analyse raisonnée, scène ..., Volume 2

Paul Duport - 1828 - 458 pages
...are made , forgot as soon As done : persévérance , dear tny lord , Keeps honour' bright : to hâve done , is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take thé instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 384 pages
...As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour hright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail ln monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one hut...
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