 | William Shakespeare - 1814
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear, my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 352 pages
...devour'd as fast as they are made, Forgot as soon as done: Persev'rance, dear my lord, Keeps Honour bright: to have done, is to hang Quite out of 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... | |
 | 1830
...forgot ? Is she quite merged in Mrs Becher ? Well, well 1 I ought to have known, at my years, that— " To have done Is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery." I took up the Times and the Morning Herald from the club table, in the club-room of the country town... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 323 pages
...devour'd as fast ai they are made, Forgot as soon as done : Persev'rance, dear my lord, Keeps Honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818
...fast as they are made,, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord. Keeps honour bright i To have done, is to hang Quite out of 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: Pers6vcrance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant wayi For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821
...ti'''our'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail la monumental mockery. Take the iustant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821
...they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To liave done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour (ravels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep... | |
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To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one... 
