 For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by,...  Greek Genius, and Other Essays - Page 185by John Jay Chapman - 1915 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...one by one pursue; if you give way, .Or hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Tho' less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth right, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; • Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, O'errun and trampled on : then what they do in present, Tho' less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to...leave you hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...thousand .ions That one by one pin sue: if y ou give way, Or hedge aside from the direct lorthripiu, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by, And leave you hindmost." But a " generous love of praise," and an " honest pride of heart," are Jolty expressions, and will... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 542 pages
...abreast: keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sous, That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to...And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : then what... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to...tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.-- _ _ . . Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank. Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...abreast. Keep then the path For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue. If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to...pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled. Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours : For time is like... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...one by one pursue. If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost : —...pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled. Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours : For time is like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 636 pages
...abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to...And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on: Then what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to...And leave you hindmost;— Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first ranh, Lie there for pavement to the abject re;ir, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what... | |
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