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" Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. "
Shakespeare's King Henry the eighth, a historical play, revised by J.P ... - Page 49
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved text ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 350 pages
...performance, as he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass, their...highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious else. Grif. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 634 pages
...little : he was vicious of his body, and gave the clergie evil example." The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their...highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious else. Grif. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 644 pages
...little : he was vicious of his body, and gave the elergie evil example." * The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their...highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious else. Grif. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was...
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A Choice of Emblemes

Geffrey Whitney - 1971 - 642 pages
...manner worthy of the authors between whom so many similarities and identities ean be established. I "Noble Madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their...please your highness To hear me speak his good now." Lavinia's deep wrongs were being written by her on- the sand to inform Marcus and Titus what they were...
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The music, or melody of rhythmus of language

James Chapman - 286 pages
...for it, Though I alone do feel the injury. Shakctpeare. GRIFFITH'S DESCRIPTION OF CARDINAL WOLSEY. MEN'S evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We...it please your highness To hear me speak his good word ? This Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from his...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 pages
...he said unto me, Write." 1o2.28 IMAGES WRITTEN IN WATER Cf. Shakespeare, Henry VIII, IV, ii, 45-46: "Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues / We write in water." Cf. also Keats's epitaph. 1o2.29 PLUTARCH SAID, "ENAMELLED IN FIRE" Cf. Moralia, "The Dialogue on Love,"...
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Dizionario comparato di proverbi e modi proverbiali italiani, latini ...

Augusto Arthaber - Proverbs - 1986 - 916 pages
...Wobltat. (M. LUTHER). in. - An injury graves itself in métal, but a benefit writes itself in water. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We Write in water. (SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII. - A. II. 2). 171. - O bere o affogare. (vat.) O basa sto Cristo, o salta...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. GK Chesterton (1874-1936) British author Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water. Griffith, King Henry Vili William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet Virtue shuns ease...
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Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volume 1

Emanuel Strauss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 644 pages
...water b) injuries don't use to be written on ice c) injuries we write in marble, kindnesses in dust d) men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water e) the hurt man writes with steel on a marble German: a) Böses schreibt man in Stein, Gutes in Sand...
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A Literary Companion to Rome: Including Ten Walking Tours

John Varriano - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 304 pages
...composed by his friend Charles Brown, while the final couplet, derived from Shakespeare's Henry VIII ('Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water'), was requested by Keats himself.12 Brown came to regret his invective against the poet's English critics,...
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