 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
 | Benjamin Clarke (author of The British gazetteer.) - 1851 - 386 pages
...his ear, " And thou wilt care for Albert Dornford 1" " I will," was the brief reply. CHAPTEll XI. " Rightly to be great Is, not to stir without great argument. But some will find a quarrel in a straw, When honour is at stake." HAMLET. A FEW taps of the Scotchman's... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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...But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 'a at the stake. How stand I then, That have — a father kill'd, a mother stain' d, Excitements of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 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...; § 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 - 1852 - 570 pages
...mass, and charge, I/ed by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit with divine ambition puff' d, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...mass, and charge, Ii-d by a delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine amßition pufPd, speare ; Hut greatly to find quarrel in a straw. When honour's at the slake. How stand I then, That have a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...and strength, and means, To do 't Examples gross as earth exhort me : Witness this army of such mase and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince; Whose...But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour 's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. 21— i. 2. 733. The same. Ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event...be great, Is, not to stir without great argument. 36 — iv. 4. 734. Ambition and content, Thoughts tending to Ambition, they do plot Unlikely wonders.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...are born great : — some achieve greatness ; — some have greatness thrust upon them. TN iii. 4. 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. H. iv. 4. Would you praise Caesar, say, — Cassar ; go no further. AC iii.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...mass, and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince ; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puii'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 J then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. 'Tis not to be great, Never to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honor's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stain'd, ' Excitements... | |
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