 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 ページ
...easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud, if oar... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 490 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 ページ
...teach tiventy what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching. 15. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. 16. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud, if... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 520 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 ? Rath- Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 ページ
...now is, nothing. Of his own body he was ill., and gave The clergy ill example. Griff. 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... | |
 | James Holroyd Fielding - 1817 - 536 ページ
...they would have done, he obliterated from his memoiy all they had done. He reversed the maxim of " Men's evil manners live in brass — their virtues we write in water," for he dwelt with pleasure upon their good actions, and put an impenetrable veil over their faults.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 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 highne^ To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | 1820 - 696 ページ
...prompt you. I have finished my epistle, and — may it please your Majesty. (Signed) PEREGRINE. On " Men's evil manners live in brass : their virtues We...water—" SHAKSPEARE. OF all those errors, to' which, ftom the frailty and weakness of our natures, we are perpetually liable to become subservient, few,... | |
 | 1822 - 694 ページ
...stanzas will supply future commentators with a parallel passage to the well-known apothegm in Shakspeare: Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. On ne ge souvient que du mal; L'ingratitude règne au monde : L'injure se grave en métal, £t le bienfait... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 636 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... | |
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Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 
