| Benjamin Homans - Military art and science - 1833 - 414 pages
...soliloquy of Sir John FalstafF is worth something after all: we are of his opinion that honour cannot set a leg, or an arm, or take away the grief of a wound ; but we should be sorry to adopt his conclusions, nor can we say with this doughty hero, "therefore... | |
| George Robert Gleig - 1834 - 350 pages
...belly, or satisfy any other want? Or, as honest Jack Falstaff would say — ' Can character set to a leg or an arm, or take away the grief of a wound ? What is character ? a word. What is in that word ? character. What is that character ? air.' Pshaw... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1857 - 432 pages
...don't think he would етer hare come round.' ENGLISH HEROES AND FRENCH HONOURS. ' САN honour set to a leg or an arm, or take away the grief of a wound?' asks Sir John Falstaff; and then, by a subtle negation, he reduces honour to a word — to mere air,... | |
| Methodist Church - 1859 - 690 pages
...They must have more than honor. With portly Sir John Falstaff, they soon inquired, " Can honor set to a leg ? or an arm ? or take away the grief of a wound '! What is honor ? Who hath it '!" And like him they added, in act if not in word, " We'll none of... | |
| Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1874 - 702 pages
...honour need not be repeated at length ; he will have none of it, finding that honour cannot " set to a leg," or " an arm," or " take away the grief of a wound, being of itself " insensible." The last scene of this drama closes with Falstaffs playing the part... | |
| Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1891 - 302 pages
...and that " honor " was a word which was well enough when it came conveniently to hand, but would not set a leg, or an arm, or take away the grief of a wound — would not suffer with the living man, or be sensible to the dead man. This Falstaff in his dotage... | |
| Education - 1908 - 626 pages
...results in something useful, what health is there in it ? Come now, let us reason together. Can culture set a leg? or an arm? or take away the grief of a wound? Can the surgeon do his work better knowing Paradise lost or Gray's Elegy than he could if he had never... | |
| Grant Showerman - 1910 - 402 pages
...something useful, what health is there in it? Come now, let us reason together. Can culture set to a leg? or an arm? or take away the grief of a wound? Can the surgeon do his work better knowing Paradise Lost or Gray's Elegy than he could if he had never... | |
| Wyndham Lewis - Heroes in literature - 1927 - 340 pages
...well to recall by reproducing it the wellknown soliloquy of Falstaff: " Can honour set to a leg ? no : or an arm ? or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? no. What is honour ? a word. What is in that word, honour ?... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1908 - 558 pages
...results in something useful, what health is there in it ? Come now, let us reason together. Can culture set a leg? or an arm? or take away the grief of a wound? Can the surgeon do his work better knowing Paradise lost or Gray's Elegy than he could if he had never... | |
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