 For honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by...  The Bombay university calendar - Page cxxiiby Bombay city, univ - 1874Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 426 pages
...one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 548 pages
...That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost;— Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on: Then what... | |
 | E H. Seymour - 1805 - 504 pages
...deficiency of a foot:—we might read, " As done, 'tis perseverance dear, my lord." 369,, " . They leave you hindmost, " Or, like a gallant horse, fall'n...rank, " Lie there for pavement to the abject rear." censure their incongruity, is utterly unpardonable : as the construction stands, it is they, (ie the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 408 pages
...one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pages
...one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...done, 'tis perseverance dear» my lord." 369. " f They leave you hindmost, " Or, like a gallant /torse, fall'n in first rank, " Lie there for pavement to the abject rear." censure their incongruity, is utterly unpardonable : as the construction stands, it is they, (ie the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 510 pages
...one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...That one by one pursue ; If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entred tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost ; — Or like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear O'errun and trampled on: Then what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 372 pages
...That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by. And leave you hindmost.— Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what... | |
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