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 entered tide, they all rush... Littell's Living Age - Pagina 4081866Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 520 pagina’s
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagina’s
...so narrow, Where one but poes abreast : keep then the For emulation hath a thousand sons, path Tint 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. And leave you hindmost— Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pagina’s
...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 forth right, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; • Or, like a gallant... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 pagina’s
...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 forth right, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — '— Or, like... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pagina’s
...strait so narrow, Where one but goes 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 forth right, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; Or, like a gallant... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pagina’s
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 472 pagina’s
...travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the pathi For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enier'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost i — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pagina’s
...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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 522 pagina’s
...(ravels 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...hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.-- Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first... | |
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