 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 ページ
...faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 444 ページ
...he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues "We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith; I were malicious... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 396 ページ
...I have finished my epistle, and — may it please your Majesty. (Signed) PEREGRINE. ON PREJUDICE. " Men's evil manners live in brass : their virtues We write in water — " SHAKSPEARE. Or all those errors, to which, from the frailty and weakness of our natures, we are perpetually liable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 ページ
...he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now.' Kath. Yes, good Griffith; (1) This scene... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 358 ページ
...he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please yonr highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 ページ
...he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. • * * * * This cardinal, , Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to* much honour.... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 ページ
...in life. . • The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones. Men's evil manners live in brass : their virtues We write in water. Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heav'ni Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 444 ページ
...he is now, nothing: Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Crom. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. — May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Cromwell; I were malicious... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 ページ
...he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | Thomas Storer - 1826 - 138 ページ
...which he had sought from motives of ambition : who finally realized, in full measure, the truth, that " Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water." To attribute to the malice of the time all the stains which history has left upon the character of... | |
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Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 
