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" Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. "
King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and ... - Page 1838
by William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe - 1709
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Elizabethans

Arthur Henry Bullen - 1924 - 312 pages
...good deeds past ; which are devour 'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida, Volume 34

William Shakespeare - 1927 - 220 pages
...deeds past, which are de£ / vour'd 148 As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright ; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail 152 In monumental mock'ry. Take the instant way ; j For honour travels in...
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The Monthly Criterion: A Literary Review, Volume 6

Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1927 - 614 pages
...to the other two passages which The Times' Reviewer fancied it failed to elucidate. ' Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.' Trot, and Cres,, III, 3 Two metaphors: in the first,...
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Shaping Men and Women: Essays on Literature and Life

Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1928 - 334 pages
...student may well take for his motto these lines of Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida: "Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright; to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...
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Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, Volume 6

Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1903 - 736 pages
...good deeds past, which are ,levour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright; to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 63

1908 - 1058 pages
...an opportunity for Shakspeare to deliver himself of his healthy and strenuous moral : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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Paradise Lost: Introduction

John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 pages
...of personification would clog the big public theme. It sometimes clogs in Shakespeare: Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...
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Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - 1987 - 260 pages
...deeds past, which are devoured As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 150 As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...alms for oblivlon, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. 10503 Troilus and Cressida Perseverance, er conversations over the wine. 1 1766 Walden 'Economy' As if you could fashlon, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. 10504 Troilus and Cressida One touch of nature makes...
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莎士比亞通論: 喜劇

顏元叔 - 2001 - 838 pages
...good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...
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