 | Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1887 - 630 pages
...than your boat; But moderate your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still; Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing From dead nieu's dust aud bones; and none of yours. Except you make or hold it. —EMIHH, I, i. Capt. Bobadil... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel. Hazlitt. ROBKOWED. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing, From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make or hold it. Jonaon.... | |
 | American poetry - 1894 - 360 pages
...than your boat ; Hut moderate your expenses now (at first), As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy...; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. GOOD COUNSAIL. CHAUCER. FLY fro the presse, and dwell with sothfastnesse, Suffise unto thy good though... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Christian ethics - 1894 - 202 pages
...you possess it. Hence it should be your aim to be gentle, and so to prove your gentleness: • . " Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy, and mere borrowed thing From dead men's bones, and none of yours, — Except you make, or hold, it." Gentleness requires power, shows power,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...genteel. ' Hazlitl. How weak a thing is gentility if it wants virtue ! — Fuller. I would have you not stand so much on your gentility, which is an airy and mere lx>rrmi n I thing from dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours except you make and hold it. /''•••... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...call our own. Ben Jonson ("Every Man in his Humor," act i.) adopte this ivi: " I would have you Not borrow'd thing From dead men's dust and bones: and none of yours Except you make and hold it." And... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1895 - 768 pages
...despise. Sh. Pericles, II. 3. !Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy, and mere borrow'd thing, From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. B. Jonson, JSv. Man in his Sum. When Adam delv'd and Eve span, Who was then a gentleman ? Pc93e> Curialia... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...but guess beyond the fourth degree. The rest of my forgotten ancestors Were sons of earth. DRYDEN. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing, From dead men's dust and bones; and none of yours, Except you make or hold it. BEN... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - American literature - 1900 - 564 pages
...than your boat, But moderate your expenses now at first, As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy...bones ; and none of yours, Except you make or hold it. This is excellent sense, but when Shakespeare had to express the good advice of an old man to a young... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 834 pages
...propertie is only to offend. Nor stand so much on your gentilitie, Which is an aerie, and meere borrow'd thing From dead men's dust and bones, and none of yours Except you make or hold it. The most amusing character in the play is Captain Bobadill, a needy braggart whose mouth is full of... | |
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I'd have you sober, and contain yourself, Not that your sail be bigger than your boat; But moderate your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still: Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing,... 
