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" Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. "
Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature - Page 369
by Robert Chambers - 1902
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Measure for measure. Comedy of errors

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 384 pages
...years to sleep." And And he might have supported the latter by the following 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 ilcep." MALONE. Mr. Malone, in a note on line 254, Sic. supposed Lord Straftbrd to have adverted, in...
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Hamlet. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...and unsure, . .' To all that fortune, death, 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 at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, 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 at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, 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 at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 522 pages
...act Freshly on me. Theokald. The latter emendation may derive support from a passage in Jfamlet: " How stand I then, " That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, " Excitements of my reason and my hlood,' " And let all sleep?" If slip he the true reading, (which, however, I do not helieve) the sense...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ..., Issue 2

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 454 pages
...the time at which he ought to exert his faculties to the best advantage and profit. " - Rightly to be great, " Is, not to stir without great argument ; " But greatly to find quarrel in a straw" L e. Magnanimously to find quarrel, &c. A kindred sentiment we find in the First Part of K. Henry IV....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, 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 at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, and danger, dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly, to be great Is not to stir without great argument ; But...reason, and my blood, And let all sleep ? while, to my siiame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy, and trick of fame, Go...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death, 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 at the shake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...great Is not to stir without great argument; But greatly to lind quarrel in a straw, When honour's know 'tisheMarc. Upon his bloody finger he doth wear A precious r stain' d, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep ? while, to iny sliame, I see The...
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