 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
 | Euripides - Greek drama - 1823 - 480 pages
...pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon ; Or drive into the bottom of the deep, Where fadom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks; -,. .' So he, that duth redeem her thence, might wear Without orival all her dignities. we can consider... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,... | |
 | Euripides - Greek drama - 1823 - 484 pages
...extravagance to an Athenian audience, as it was softened by popular belief. But when Hotspur says, By heav'n, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale faced moon , Or drive into the bottom of the deep, Where fadom-line could never touch the ground,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; [7] The canker-roBe is the dog-rose, the flower of the Cynosbaton. STEEVENS. v [81... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 556 pages
...North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. Hot. By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright Honour...the ground, And pluck up drowned Honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrivalj all her dignities: — But out... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...adventure. To him — " M ethink it were an easy leap, To pluck bright guineas from the pale fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where...fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drownM l*»iVei'gn* by tUeneap.'' 27» c79 6. A plan for erecting a basin of three hundred acres, close... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1824 - 718 pages
...one indicating most risk to an adventurer. I now come to HOTSPDR'S vaunting apostrophe : " By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced MOON," &c. &c. &c. Gildon has condemned this as rant; Dr. Warburlon has extolled it on the ground of its beautiful... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 500 pages
...pluck bright honour from the pale faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom liue could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks.— SHAKSPEARE. Readers in their senses take these for the lunatics of science, and wish they would swagger... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 1044 pages
...pluck bright honour from the pale faced moon, * Or dire into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the lucks. — SHAKSPEARE. Readers in their senses take these for the lunatics of science, and wish they... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...without great argument ; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,... | |
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