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 - Seite 113von William Shakespeare - 1788Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Sumner - 1846 - 112 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1905 - 640 Seiten
...joined to the infinitive, but with no instance of the split infinitive. In ' Hamlet ' we find : — Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument,...find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. And in ' Paradise Lost ' is the line : — Strongly to suffer and support our pains. In the poetry... | |
| George Stephens - 1850 - 66 Seiten
...extension of dominion as the retension, with onour and dignity, of that of which it may be possessed. " Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument...find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake." If vigilance be employed in the proper quarter, few objects will stimulate more powerfully than jealousy... | |
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