 Examples gross as earth exhort me : Witness this army of 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 is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...  Rosine Laval: A Novel - Page 132by Ralph Lockwood - 1833 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 pages
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whoso spirit with divine ambition puff d, Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what...fortune, death. and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Bightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 300 pages
...and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event, 5° Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and clanger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But... | |
 | 1892 - 664 pages
...his heroism is not of the world's fashion, not of the fashion of the fierce sea-princes who expose What is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare Even for an egg-shell. ' Amidst the skimmers of the seas, whose highest happiness lay in battle, in their long ships red and... | |
 | 1914 - 552 pages
...chiefly cowardice and wishes that he were like Fortinbras who takes no thought of before and after but "Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what...fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell." Hamlet decides that the way to be great is to disregard reason and "to find quarrel in a straw" in... | |
 | Harold Littledale - 1893 - 378 pages
...her lord." So in Hamlet, IV. iv. 53, an egg-shell is taken as denoting something worthless : — " Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell." The sudden honesty of the landlord, taken by surprise (line 410), is characteristic of Tennyson's humorous... | |
 | 1895 - 416 pages
...purest share With all that live ? The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive ! WORDSWORTH 332 Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. HAMLET iv. 4. TJOOR soul, here for so little, cast among so many -•- hardships, filled with desires... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 294 pages
...and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puffd Makes mouths at the invisible event, 50 Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune,...and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to hej^rgat^ Is not to stir without great argument, JBut greatly to find quarrel in. a straw when honour... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1896 - 688 pages
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit, by divine ambition puff d, Makes mouths at the invisible event ; Exposing what...egg-shell. Rightly to be great, Is not to stir without [? upon] great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake .... ....... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1900 - 328 pages
...trivial, are the delight of humour : Alexander's dust will stop a beer-barrel; divine ambition exposes what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. The comments made by Johnson on a certain well-known passage in Macbeth are an excellent example of... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 400 pages
...honor 's at the stake," and at the same time depicts an army " Led by a delicate and tender prince, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that Fortune, Death, and Danger dare, There can be no quarrel in a straw or for an egg-shell, unless men have gone mad. Nor can honor in... | |
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