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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... "
The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copy ... - Page 175
by William Shakespeare - 1811
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The Plays, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 358 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 ;...hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present,...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...fated sky Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...sons, That one by one pursue ; If you give way, Or edge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost....
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table-talk

a and w galignani - 1825 - 306 pages
...hononr travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path; For emulation bath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue. If you give...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. Then what they...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...goes abreast : keep the the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If yuu give way. Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,...Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by, And leave yuu hindmost; — Or, like a gallant bone fallen in first rank. Lie there for pavement to the abject...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 482 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. Then what they...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 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 ;...to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you him! most ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 492 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;...hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an entcr'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost: — Or like a gallant horse, fall'n in first...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 486 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;...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 Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait as narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the...hindmost: — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, [present, O'er-run and trampled on: Then what they...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the .instant way, For honour travels in a strait as narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the...one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the'direct forthright, Like to an eiiter'd tide., they all rush by, And leave you hindmost: — Or,...
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