 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, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For...  Memoirs of Christina, Queen of Sweden - Page 71by Henry Woodhead - 1863Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1790 - 558 pages
...are good deeds pail ; which are deAs fart as they are made, forgot as foon As done : Perfcverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of falhion, like a rufty mail In monumental mockery. Take the inilant way For honour travels in a ftreight... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1789 - 718 pages
...good deeds paft ; which are devour'd As fafl as they are made, forgot as foon As done : Perfcverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fafliion, like a rufty g mail * ///r af}]—By an all. * eretf, &c.]—flculk, fecrete themfelves from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1795 - 372 pages
...deeds pail, which are devour'd 1 As faft as they are made, forgot as foon 1 As done : perfeverance keeps honour bright : • To have done, is to hang quite out of fafh»on, ' Like rufty mail in monumental mockery. " For honour travels in a ftreight fo narrow,. "... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1797 - 656 pages
...beft fuccefs generally infpires in other minds : thinking, no doubt, that,— « —. - Perfeverance keeps honour bright : « To have done, is to hang quite out of fafliion, *' Like rufty mail3 in monumental mockery." In this temper, he continues to mako fuch objections... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1798 - 446 pages
...deeds paft ; which are de? vour'd As faft as they are made, forgot as foon As done : Perfeverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fafluoB> like a nlfty mail Tn monumental mockery. Take the inftant way -r for honour travels in a ftreight... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...good deeds paft ; which are devour'd As faft as they are made, forgot as foon As done : Perfeverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out ef fafliion, like a rufty mail In monumental mockery. Take the inftant way ; For honour travels in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 426 pages
...scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done :• 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 548 pages
...Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 408 pages
...scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pages
...Those scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: 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... | |
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