 By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...  Shakespeare and His Critics - Page 37by Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 458 pages
...start a hare. North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap. To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; (7) The -ynker-rose is the do^-rose, the flower of the Cynosbaton. STEE(8) For disdainful.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 pages
...start a hare. North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the hounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1811 - 548 pages
...without a sou!. I have always admired that speech of Hotspur in the first part of Henry the Fourth.— ' By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,... | |
 | American matron - 1811 - 300 pages
...high honours, and capable of vast attainments. Teach them to exclaim with the gallant Hotspur — " By Heaven ! methinks it were an easy leap " To pluck bright honour from the pale faced moon, " Or dive into the bottom of the deep, " Where fathom line could never touch the ground,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pages
...canker-rue it the dogrose, the flower of the Cynosbaton. * — — disdain'd — ] For disdainful. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an -easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon.; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathon>-line could never touch the ground,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...the gentlemen will accept of it. Ralph. By Heaven, methinks, ? it were an easy Cit. Do, Ralph, do. To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the sea, Where never fathom-line touch'd any ground, And pluck up drowned honour from the lake of hell.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...start a. hare. North, Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; (7) The canker-rose is the dog-rose, the flower of the Cynosbaton. STEE(8) For disdainful.... | |
 | Robert Treat Paine - 1812 - 572 pages
...discrimination. And we cite as another example of the higher flights of scenick delineation : " Mcthinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon." &c. Instances might be multiplied, such as his testy mortification and resentment at the revolt of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...to all that his father and uncle urge to calm him, and his fine abstracted apostrophe to honour, " By heaven methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honour from the moon," &c. After all, notwithstanding the gallantry, generosity, good temper, and idle freaks of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...insensibility to all that his father and uncle urge to calm him, and his fine abstracted apostrophe to honour, "By heaven methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honour from the moon," &c. After all, notwithstanding the gallantry, generosity, good temper, and idle freaks of the... | |
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