 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. 'Tis not to.be great, Never to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of lame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Drama - 1818 - 552 pages
...dare, .HAMLET. 109 Even for an egg-shell. 'Tis not to be great Never to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...great, Is, not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father...fame, Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...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...twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy, and trick of f;ime, Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot* Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...dare, Even from an eggshell. 'Tis not to be great, Never to stir without great argument ; But ^eVity to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake....and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame 1 see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their... | |
 | English poetry - 1818 - 784 pages
...and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. 'Tis not to be great Never to stir without great argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's...then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Kxcitements of my reason and my blood. And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...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...stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain 'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...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...mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood 7, And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...kill'd, a mother stam'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep? while, to my shame, 1 see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That,...fame, Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot Whereou the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough, and continent, To hide the slain?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...Freshly on me." THEOEALD. The latter emendation may derive its support from a passage in Hamlet: " How stand I then, " That have a father kill'd, a mother...Excitements of my reason and my blood, " And let all sleep?" If slip be the true reading, (which, however, I do not believe,) the sense may be, — which for these... | |
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The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,... 
