 By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...  Works - Page 270edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | John Whitaker - 1788 - 446 pages
...extraordinary mode of coming at the French original, by diving after it in the Scotch. But alas! he may dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground; and yet will not be able to " pluck up this cc drowned" original " by the locks." He has only miftaken... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 626 pages
...defcend to the very entrails of the earth, if fo be Chat by that price J could obtain a kingdom." MALOM. Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line...ground, •And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 462 pages
...Fourth : " By Heaven, methinks it were an enfy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon i Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, ^nd pluck up drowned honour by the locks — '' " THERE is a boldneft.and eafe in the expreffion, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 598 pages
...leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon j Or dive into the bottom of the deep, AVhere fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ' ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1789 - 718 pages
...Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an eafy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon - t Or dive into the bottom of the deep, "Where fathom-line...the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 700 pages
...fufpeft. Stokes's book, a noble objeft for the wits, was printed at London, in the year 1641. T. WARTON. Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line...ground,' And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1793 - 656 pages
...fufpeft. Stokes's book, a noble objecl for the wits, was printed at London, in the year 1641. T. WAR TON. Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,5 And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 618 pages
...fufpeft. Stokes's book, a noble objeft for the wits, was printed at London, in the year 1641. T. WAR TON. Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,5 And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1795 - 424 pages
...heav'n, methinks, it were an eafy leap, To pluck bright Honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive mto the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never...touch the ground, And pluck up drowned Honour by the kickti: So he that doth redeem her thence, might wear Without corrival all her dignities. But out upon... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...(pear. Honour. By heaven, methinks it were an cafy leap, To pluck bright honour from the palc-tac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where...the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem lier thence, might wear Without corrival all her dignitiei : But out upon... | |
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