 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...  Rosine Laval - Page 240by R. Smith - 1833 - 528 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...prince ; . Soo Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event j Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, . .' To all that fortune,...Is not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death,...Is, not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death,...Is, not to stir without great argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...power of reviewing the past, and anticipating the future. Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death,...Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument;*9 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...power of reviewing the past, and anticipating the future. Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death,...Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument;9 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That... | |
 | E H. Seymour - 1805 - 456 pages
...of life, the time at which he ought to exert his faculties to the best advantage and profit. " • Rightly to be great, " Is, not to stir without great argument ; " But greatly tofind quarrel in a straw." ie Magnanimously to find quarrel, &c. A kindred sentiment we find in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition pufFd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death,...Is, not to stir without great argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death,...Is not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing 7 to lind quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. How stand I then That have a father kill'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition pufFd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, To all that fortune, death,...Is, not to stir without great argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the shake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd,... | |
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