 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 - 1843 - 582 pages
...Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devoured 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 - 1843 - 406 pages
...scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as ihey 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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...good deeds past ; Which are devour'd as fast as they are made, Forgot as soon as done : Persev'rance, 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 Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1845 - 432 pages
...at the height, we are forgotten. Shakespear gave different advice, and himself acted upon it. — " 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... | |
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 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 nail, In monumental mockery. Troilvs and Cressida. Lady Cunnington was too much... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devoured 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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...good deeds past ; Which are devour d as fast as they are made. Forgot as soon as done : Persev'rance, 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...scraps arc good deeds past, which are devoured As fast аз they are made, forgot as soon As done. comfortless despairs ; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, fashion, like a rusty mail. In monumental mockery. Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 156 pages
...to the voice Of any true decision. Pride hath no other glass To shew itself, but pride. Perseverance Keeps honour bright ; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mai] In monumental mockery. Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...Those seraps 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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