 | 1822 - 694 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 398 pages
...I have finished my epistle, and — may it please your Majesty. (Signed) PEREGRINE. ON PREJUDICE. " Men's evil manners live in brass : their virtues We write in water — " SHAKSPEARE. OF all those errors, to which, from the frailty and weakness of our natures, we are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 358 pages
...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 yonr highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...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. • * * * * This cardinal, , Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to* much honour.... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 444 pages
...he is now, nothing: Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Crom. 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 Cromwell; I were malicious... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...in life. . • The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones. Men's evil manners live in brass : their virtues We write in water. Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heav'ni Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...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; (1) This scene... | |
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Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 
