Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's... Hamlet. Titus Andronicus - Page 113by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
| Charles Sumner - 1845 - 108 pages
...pictured to his contemplations the army of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger, dare Even for an egg-s)tell ; 56 Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel... | |
| Marmion Wilard Savage, Marmion Wilme Savage - 1846 - 382 pages
...one day, come along, you must dine with me." Falcon was a little coy. "Now you must." CHAPTER XXIX. " Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But GREATLY to find quarrel in a STRAW, When honour is at stake." Hamlet. A BARDIC COSTUME — THE GREAT BEAR QUESTION — THE YOUNG IRELAND DOCTRINE... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1846 - 112 pages
...this sentiment, when his soul pictured to his contemplations— Led by a delicate and tender prince Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger, dare Even for an eggshell; the army of such mass and charge, and when he says, •with a point which has given to this sentiment... | |
| 1849 - 490 pages
...delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition pufiPd Makes mouth at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare Even for an egg-shell. (So ifl intereffant, biefe SBorte genauer gu bettactjten. ЗФ erinnere ¿unädjft baran, bafj biffer... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...anticipating the future. 8 some craven tcruple — ] Sonic cowardly scruple. Even for an egg -shell Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great...stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain 'd, Excitements of my reason, and my blood, And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The... | |
| William John Birch - 1848 - 574 pages
...invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal and nnsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Ev'n for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great, Is not to stir...mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep ? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thonsand men , That for... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune,...be great, Is, not to stir without great argument; When honor's at the stake. How stand I, then, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, That have a father... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1848 - 366 pages
...centre that does something. Who has ever heard the sun shinej who has not heard a straw-fire blaze ? " Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great...find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake." Such, it seems to me, is Hamlet's greatness, and not the less truly his because he disclaims it. ,Hamlet,... | |
| 1848 - 722 pages
...centre that does something. Who has ever heard the sun shine ? who has not heard a straw-fire blaze ? " Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great...argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honor's at the stake." Such, it seems to us, is Hamlet's greatness, and not the less truly his, because... | |
| 1848 - 1390 pages
...centre that does something. Who has ever heard the sun shine ? who has not heard a straw-fire blaze ? " Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great...argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honor's at the stake." Such, it seems to us, is Hamlet's greatness, and not the less truly his, because... | |
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