 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 286 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 Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 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 ? Kat h. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1845 - 186 pages
...diripienda ferant.' — Tibull. Ш. 6. 28. luiipûv Se 4,aÚЛwc îрKov еis SSap ypdipe. — Menand. ' Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues ' We write in water.'— Shaksp. Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. CARM. XLIV. The poet seems exceedingly indignant with Lesbia's infidelity.... | |
 | Charles Ferrers Raymund Palmer - 1845 - 638 pages
...accused, or mitigate their condemnation. Shakespeare well remarks, in speaking of cardinal Wolsey, " Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water." So concerning the bailiffs, the bad remains on lasting record : whilst to learn the good, we fain must... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...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. 36. Fine sense, and exalted sense, are not half so valuable as common sense. There are forty men of... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 584 pages
...field sports ; and even in those trifles shewed that he was formed to excel in whatever he engaged in ; and had he indulged himself more in them, especially...engrave the tablets of its heroes with such a crowd of excellences, that no room remains for the exhibition of their frailties. Lord Talbot was even more... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 pages
...sustain. Though removed at a time of life when others but begin to shine, he might justly be said .infix et ad vitam et ad gloriam vixisse ; and his death...engrave the tablets of its heroes with such a crowd of excellences, that no room remains for the exhibition of their frailties. Lord Talbot was even more... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 354 pages
...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 se souvient que du mal ; L'ingratitude regne au monde : L'injure se grave en metal, Et le bienfait... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1846 - 938 pages
...and his Wife. The left hand of the fair statue, severed from the wrist, lies beside the effigies. " Men's evil manners live in brass — their virtues we write in water," and on the silent stream of Time the name of Constance de Lingard — with that of many a self-sacrificing... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 388 pages
...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 se souvient que du mal ; L'ingratitude regne au monde : L'injure se grave en metal, Et le bienfait... | |
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Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 
