...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...

...now is, nothing. Of his own body 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 1 were malicious...

...attorneyship. Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest- timbered oak. Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. Men, that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best. Men prize the thing ungain'd...

...of the authors between whom so many similarities and identities ean be established. I "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." Lavinia's deep wrongs were being written...

...for it, Though I alone do feel the injury. Shakctpeare. GRIFFITH'S DESCRIPTION OF CARDINAL WOLSEY. MEN'S evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good word ? This Cardinal, Though from an humble stock,...

...he said unto me, Write." 1o2.28 IMAGES WRITTEN IN WATER Cf. Shakespeare, Henry VIII, IV, ii, 45-46: "Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues / We write in water." Cf. also Keats's epitaph. 1o2.29 PLUTARCH SAID, "ENAMELLED IN FIRE" Cf. Moralia, "The Dialogue on Love,"...

...Wobltat. (M. LUTHER). in. - An injury graves itself in métal, but a benefit writes itself in water. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We Write in water. (SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII. - A. II. 2). 171. - O bere o affogare. (vat.) O basa sto Cristo, o salta...

...vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. GK Chesterton (1874-1936) British author Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water. Griffith, King Henry Vili William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet Virtue shuns ease...

...water b) injuries don't use to be written on ice c) injuries we write in marble, kindnesses in dust d) men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water e) the hurt man writes with steel on a marble German: a) Böses schreibt man in Stein, Gutes in Sand...

...composed by his friend Charles Brown, while the final couplet, derived from Shakespeare's Henry VIII ('Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water'), was requested by Keats himself.12 Brown came to regret his invective against the poet's English critics,...