| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 196 pages
...devoured As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, 150 Keeps honor bright; to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail 152 In monumental mock'ry. Take the instant way, 153 For honor travels in a strait so narrow 154 Where... | |
| 顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 838 pages
...he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot...then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd... | |
| Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...puts alms for oblivion, / A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. /Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd / As fast as they are made, forgot...Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path; / For ciui ilalion hath a thousand sons / That one by one pursue; if yon give way, / Or hedge aside from... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot...Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.... | |
| John Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 580 pages
...intuition, they generally follow the advice of the same author: — Take the instant way, For honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes...then, the path, For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an enter'd... | |
| John Scanlan - History - 2005 - 212 pages
...oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devoured As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done....Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang Quite of fashion, like a rusty nail.46 Thus, to avoid being consigned to the past - to avoided being disposed... | |
| Mark Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 340 pages
...back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. . . . Perserverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright; to have done is...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. . . . For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 284 pages
...honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry. Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait...narrow Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path, 155 I45ff 'From the mass of swaggering Greeks [at SFC 2003], the only one who makes a positive For... | |
| Charles Edelman - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 452 pages
...is evoked in the high medieval setting of Troilus and Cressida, when Ulysses reminds Achilles, ... to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry . . . (3.3.151-3) The flexibility of chain mail made it still useful in some armour pieces,... | |
| Abraham Rothberg - Hungary - 2005 - 273 pages
...he puts alms for Oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot...done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail In monumental mockery... Alms for oblivion and monumental mockery indeed! When would he learn?... | |
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