| William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 584 páginas
...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... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1847 - 320 páginas
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 páginas
...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... | |
| Geffrey Whitney - 1971 - 642 páginas
...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... | |
| James Chapman - 286 páginas
...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 páginas
...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,"... | |
| Augusto Arthaber - 1986 - 916 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
...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... | |
| Emanuel Strauss - 1994 - 644 páginas
...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... | |
| John Varriano - 1995 - 304 páginas
...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,... | |
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