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... Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Page 308by Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 762 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 572 pages
...mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant wayj For honour travels in a streight so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path : For emulation...pursue ; If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direft forthright, Like to an entred tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — , 540 Or,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 426 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 548 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost;— Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 408 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...fashion, l.irt ruit't mail in mnmimental tnoctery, For honour travels in a siarit so narrow. Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path, For emulation...thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give . way, Lite to an entered tide, they all nish by. And leave you hindermost; and there you be, JJie to a gallfir.t... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 510 pages
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1807 - 372 pages
...rusty nail 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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...travels in a streicht so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path : For emulation iiath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; If you give...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entred tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — Or like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way T'pr honour travels in a streight so narrow, 'Where the Thames sonsi That one by one pursue ; If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright^ Like to... | |
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