 For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep 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 tide, they all rush by,...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 284edited by - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Joshua Bates - Character - 1846 - 484 pages
...necessarily connected with the failure of another ; or as Shakspeare expresses it : Honor travels in a strait so narrow ; Where one but goes abreast: keep then...thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth right, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For Honour travels in a strait so narrow, That one but goes abreast ; keep then the path, For Emulation...thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an entered tide they all rush by, And leave you... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For Honour travels in a strait so narrow, That one but goes abreast ; keep then the path. For Emulation...thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an entered tide they all rush by, And leave you... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail. In monumental mockery. Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait «! expression : there is no fancy in this gloomy Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own. Every cloud engenders not a storm. Emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or edge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter' d tide, they all rush by, And leave vou... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental muckery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the...thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand eons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail, In monumental mockery. Take the instant way, For honour travels in a strait to sully and dash out the dissembling colours of a lustful, artifi Kmuhit ¡..¡i hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the...thousand sons, That one by one pursue. If you give way, 1 ie Ajax, who has abilities which were never brought into view or use. Or hedge aside from the direct... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 588 pages
...fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the...thousand sons, That one by one pursue. If you give way, 1 ie Ajax, who has abilities which were never brought into view or use. 2 The folio reads shrinking.... | |
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