...scarce ever unanimously agreed in any other particular." The maxim is assuredly no longer true, that " Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water :" the office of modern biography is more frequently to engrave the tablets of its heroes with such...

...hospitable board; recent circumstances were sufficient as his excuse. CHAPTER XXVI. The death of GF Cooke. " Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water." "Who by repentance is not satisfied Is not of Heaven nor earth.' The venom of such looks, we fairly...

...motive. The honest man does that from duty, which the man of honor does for the sake of character. 35. Men's evil manners live in brass; — their virtues we write in water. 30. Fine sense, and exalted sense, are not half so valuable as common sense. There are forty men of...

...is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grt/. ^ Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please your hHincss To hear me speak lus good noiv ? Kath, Yes, good Griffith; (1) This scene...

...— ii. 2. 432 Woe doth the heavier sit, Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. 17— i. 3. 433 Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 25 — iv. 2. 434 When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will....

...The present age, which justifies to the fullest the words of "faithful Griffith,"— " Noble Madam, Men's evil manners live in brass — their virtues We write in water," — is much more ready to remember the failings of his Royal Highness, than the unwearied zeal with...

...particular reference to the Cardinal, through the mouth of the faithful Griffith, in Henry VIII., says— " Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water." It would appear from this passage the poet was sensible that the spirit of detraction had been more...

...strings silent lie ; Sleep, sleep again, my Lyre ! and let thy master die I " Unhappily, however, — "Men's evil manners live in brass, Their virtues we write in water ;" — The " Davideis" is now seldom quoted; and when it is noticed, it is not for the purpose of recalling...

...nothing. In perso'nal conduct he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. [Griffith.] 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 ? [Catherine.] Yes, good Griffith; I were...

...— ii. 2. 432 Woe doth the heavier sit, Where it perceive s it is but faintly borne. 17— i. 3. 433 Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. 25 — iv. 2. 434 When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will....