 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 at the stake.  Rosine Laval: A Novel - Page 132by Ralph Lockwood - 1833 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 522 pages
...tender prince ; . Soo Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event j Exposing what is mortal, and unsure, . .' To all that...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, a mother stain'd, Excitements of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...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, a mother stain'd, Excitements of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...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, a mother stain'd, Excitements of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...discourse,] Such latitude of comprehension, such power of reviewing the past, and anticipating the future. Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...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
...discourse,]. Such latitude of comprehension, such power of reviewing the past, and anticipating the future. Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...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 - 454 pages
...prime 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 to find quarrel in a straw" L e. Magnanimously to find quarrel, &c. A kindred sentiment we find in the First Part of K. Henry IV.... | |
 | 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
...such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition pufFd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...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, a mother stain'd, Excitements of... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puft, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...such mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition pufFd, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what...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, a mother stain'd, Excitements of... | |
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