 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 էջ
...easier teach twenty what were good to be done r 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 our... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 450 էջ
...good is oft interred with their bones" This sentiment, a little varied, occurs in K. Henry VIII. " Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues " We write in water." * 358. " As rushing out of doors," &c. . I wish this quaint conceit had been omitted, here. 361. "... | |
 | 1806 - 448 էջ
...immediately relating to herself. With regard to other memorialists, let the eighth Harry be quoted: " Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water—" The present merits no such imputation. We have here many entertaining anecdotes in the " Retrospect... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 588 էջ
...back-wounding calumny" which our immortal dramatist so happily stigmatizes, when he makes Cromwell to exclaim, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. Animated, therefore, by a desire to rescue the more amiable lineaments in the Russian sovereign's character... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 384 էջ
...as he then was, mighty ; But his performance, as he is now, nothing.6 Of his own body he was ill,7 and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam,...Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We wrke in water.s May it please your highness mate that the Cardinal was not content with the tythes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 476 էջ
...an unbounded stomach, ever ranking , . • '• Of his own body he was Jll t and gave , The clcigy ill example,, . Grif. Noble Madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue's , We write in waler. May it please your Highness To hear me speak his good now? ' Crif. This... | |
 | Sarah Green - 1808 - 326 էջ
...goddess, and she looks a queen. rnri's RoMs*. IST OR Y or THE COURT OF ENGLAND. CHAP. I. AN HEIR APPARENT. Men's evil manners live in brass ; Their virtues we write in water. SHAKESPEARE. -II- N treating of ages long gone by, the pen, while it endeavours to be faithful to truth,... | |
 | 1808 - 306 էջ
...eminent degree, never speaking ill of any one,—but Shakspeare has well observed, upon another occasion, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. London Institution, JAMES SAVAGE. Dec. 1,1808. LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER, 1808. Academy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 476 էջ
...where he meant to ruin, pitiful: His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance, as lie is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave...We write in water. May it please your highness To heitr mu speak his good now ? Kath. • Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious else. Grif~ This cardinal,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 էջ
...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... | |
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Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues * We write in water. 
