Malbrook to the wars is going " — he did not think of the tumble he has got since, the shock of which no one could have stood but himself. We see and hear chiefly of the favourites of Fortune and the Muse, of great generals, of first-rate actors, of... Table-talk: Or Original Essays - Page 219by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Heron - Wit and humor - 1807 - 256 pages
...interesting passages in the works of Shakespeare, by contemplating and enduring, in real life, — " The Insolence of office, and the spurns " Which patient merit of the unworthy takes." You learn what an admirable resemblance there is between the exterior apparatus and effective management... | |
| Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - Genealogy - 1824 - 370 pages
..."law's delay," stands a fair chance of being speedily " abated." I wish I could say the same thing of " The insolence of office, and the spurns, Which patient merit of the unworthy takes." one-third which is cultivated is generally performed by peasants coming from Tuscany or the northern... | |
| James Rondeau - Slavery - 1824 - 36 pages
.... .. .. tih'end? thousand shape.-,. ,4 a tvrant and human dtgi.. ; n \ero "Theoi.pi- ..." to 15 10 The insolence of office, and the spurns Which patient merit of the unworthy takes" . . . , . . :. in any free country, and in every free: people whose boast is of liberty, while they... | |
| Henry Mead - Literary curiosa - 1846 - 254 pages
...tend a flock of sheep, rather than have been thrust on such a government as this." When Bounaparte got into his carriage to proceed on his Russian expedition,...strolling-players are doomed to penury and tattered robes in country places, dreaming to the last of a London engagement ; how many wretched daubers shiver and... | |
| William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1846 - 514 pages
...since, the shock of which no one could have stood but himself. We see and hear chiefly of the favorites of Fortune and the Muse, of great generals, of first-rate...merit of the unworthy takes ;" how many half-starved strolling players are doomed to penury and tattered robes in country-places, dreaming to the last of... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns Which patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? — Who would fardles hear, To groan and... | |
| Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns Which patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardles bear, To groan and sweat... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns Which patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? — Who would fardles bear, To groan and... | |
| Elizabeth M. Stewart - 1853 - 348 pages
..." Who would bear the whips and scorns of time ; The oppressor's scorn, the proud man's contumely ; The insolence of office, and the spurns, Which patient merit of the unworthy takes." HAMLET. A GLOOMY day, at the latter end of a chill and wet October, was beginning to close with such... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...celebrated poets. These are at the head ; we are struck with the glittering eminence on which 'hey stand, and long to set out on the same tempting career:...office, and the spurns which patient merit of the un. worthy takes;1' how many half-starved strolling players are doomed to penury and tattered robes... | |
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