 | 1804 - 452 pages
...bright honour from the pale-faced moop: " Or dive into the bottom of the sea, " Where never fathom line touch'd any ground, " And pluck up drowned honour from the lake of hell." But while they thus parody and misrepresent what they can neither equal. nor imitate, they sometimes... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 574 pages
...leap . , [moon, To pluck bright honour from the palt-fac'd Or dive into the bottom of ihe sea, Whpre never fathom-line touch'd any ground, And pluck up drowned honour from the l;.!.c of hell. Cit. How say you, gentlemen, is it not as I told you? Wife. Nay, gentlemen, he hath... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 756 pages
...speech of Hotspur, in the first part of Henry the Fourth : " By Heaven, metUnks 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 drowntd Honour by the lockt—"... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 556 pages
...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-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 ; So... | |
 | George Colman - 1830 - 350 pages
...is as hopeless as a turnpike road over the shifting * " By heaven ! mc-thinks 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." SAa'ispcare.... | |
 | 1834 - 630 pages
...supplant my friend; but. in justice to myself, I am bound to say, that though " it were an easier task to pluck bright honour from the palefaced moon, or dive into the bottom of the deep and drag up drowned honour," still, that law of kings ruled every word and action I spoke of;... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 pages
..."jealous in honour," how eloquently does Hotspur cry out — 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 ; So... | |
 | 1837 - 474 pages
...exclaims with all the ardour and impetuosity of his character, — " Methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the hollow of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowning honour by... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 348 pages
...the soldier to the storm of the fortified rock ; the sailor to brave the splitting tempest ; both " To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bosom of the deep, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks." What did it not do for " Macedonia's... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...the soldier to the storm of the fortified rock ; the sailor to brave the splitting tempest ; both " To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bosom of the deep, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks." What did it not do for " Macedonia's... | |
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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; So he that doth redeem her thence... 
