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... Beaumont and Fletcher: Or, The Finest Scenes, Lyrics, and Other Beauties of ... - Page 156by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1802 - 436 pages
...confer The sense, I believe, is contempt that is repelled -witA equal contempt, or disdain. 537. " — Methinks it were an easy leap " To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon, " Or dive," &c. Dr. Johnson, I think, has well defended this sally of Hotspur ; "but,"... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...start a hare. 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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 pages
...start a hare. 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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 154 pages
...start a hare. 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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...unsteudfast footing of a spear.] That is of a •pear laid across. WARBURTON. Line 362. By hearen, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon;] Euripides has put the very same sentiment into the mouth of Eteocles : " I will not,... | |
| 1804 - 452 pages
...the speech of Hotspur. Ralph hein^ desired to " speak a huffing part," begins, " By Heavens, mcthinks it were an easy leap, " To pluck 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...canker-rose is the dogrose, the flower of the Cynosbaton. 4 — disdain d — ] For disdainful. 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,... | |
| John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...Trembling even at the name of Mortimer. I perfectly agree with Malone. P. 305. — 141. — 405. 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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 488 pages
...The canker-rose is the dogrose, the flower of the Cynosbaton. 4 ditdain'd — ] For disdainful. 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,... | |
| 1805 - 676 pages
...failed of success. Even our our Hotspurs succeed to a certain degree, although ready to exclaim : " By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from thepale-fac'd moon ! Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,... | |
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