 | Charles Sumner - 1846 - 104 pàgines
...says, with a point which has given to this sentiment its strongest and most popular expression, • Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake. And when is honor at stake ? This question opens again the views with which I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pàgines
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff 'd, t, In a wa honour's at the stake. How stand I, then. That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pàgines
...anticipating the future. 8 some craven tcruple — ] Sonic cowardly scruple. 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. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain 'd, Excitements... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pàgines
...such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what...be great, Is, not to stir without great argument; When honor's at the stake. How stand I, then, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, That have a father... | |
 | William John Birch - 1848 - 574 pàgines
...invisible event ; Exposing what is mortal and nnsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Ev'n for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great, Is not to stir...argument ; 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1848 - 366 pàgines
...centre that does something. Who has ever heard the sun shinej who has not heard a straw-fire blaze ? " 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." Such, it seems to me, is Hamlet's greatness, and not the less truly his because... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pàgines
...centre that does something. Who has ever heard the sun shine ? who has not heard a straw-fire blaze ? " Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great...argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honor's at the stake." Such, it seems to us, is Hamlet's greatness, and not the less truly his, because... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pàgines
...centre that does something. Who has ever heard the sun shine ? who has not heard a straw-fire blaze ? " Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great...argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honor's at the stake." Such, it seems to us, is Hamlet's greatness, and not the less truly his, because... | |
 | 1905 - 640 pàgines
...joined to the infinitive, but with no instance of the split infinitive. In ' Hamlet ' we find : — 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. And in ' Paradise Lost ' is the line : — Strongly to suffer and support our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pàgines
...Remember thee, ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat, in this distracted world.. Ham. a. 4 s. 4 Rightly to be great, is not to stir without great...argument, but greatly to find quarrel, in a straw, when honoui's at the stake.. Ham. a. 4 s. 4 Season your admiration for a while with an attent ear.. Hor.... | |
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Makes mouths at the invisible event, 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... 
