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" O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed... "
The Ladies' Companion - Page 254
1857
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...«nlertamVJ me with mine own device fI am to thank you for it. О .-•'.-•' old man, how well in thoe — appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for ihef as/tion of these times, Where none will sweat — but for promotion ; And having...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...entertain'd me with mine own device;I am to thank you for it О good old mon, how well in (Лее— appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not lor meed! Thou art not for \he fashion of these times, Where none will sweat— but for promotion ;...
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Subjects and selections for Latin and Greek composition, by W. Dobson

William Dobson - 1845 - 204 pages
...^ecoi/ epioi tfvviovro)v. Hesiod Theogon. WEDNESDAY, September 16. Greek Iambics. Oh ! good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When servants sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will...
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Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy

Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 pages
...accompany Orlando; and Orlando praises him as a survivor from some feudalised golden age: O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the...world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! 1 See OJ Campbell, Comicall Satyre; Lecocq, La Satire en Angleterre de 1588 st 1603, pp. 29 1ff; c/...
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Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry: A Study of His Earlier Work in Relation ...

M. C. Bradbrook - 1979 - 294 pages
...approximate to the generic, as Adam does in As You Like It: Orlando expressly says: O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the...antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! (2. 3. 56-58.) Adam is at least given a name (though a symbolic one perhaps) : Bates, Williams, and...
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As You Like it

William Shakespeare - 1993 - 134 pages
...I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities. ORLANDO O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the...world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, 60 And having...
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Four Comedies

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities. ORLANDO O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the...world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 60 Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having...
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Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon

W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 356 pages
...Orlando recognizes in Adam's duty and loyalty a remnant of an older and better time: O good old man. how well in thee appears The constant service of the...world. When service sweat for duty. not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times. Where none will sweat but for promotion. And having that...
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Shakespeare's Universal Wolf: Studies in Early Modern Reification

Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pages
...act as one from a former time, before the development of a capitalist labourmarket: O guod old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the...world. When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times. Where none will sweat hut for promotion, And having that...
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Reading the Renaissance: Culture, Poetics, and Drama

Jonathan Locke Hart - 1996 - 304 pages
...lost past and thus as the measure or touchstone of modern decay: "O good old man." exclaims Orlando. "how well in thee appears / The constant service of the antique world" (2.3.56-57). and adds "thou art not for the fashion of these times" (59). He has. indeed. aged even...
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