I'd have you sober, and contain yourself, Not that your sail be bigger than your boat; But moderate your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still: Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing,... The Oxford Treasury of English Literature - Página 209por Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - 1907 - 356 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Ben Jonson - 1756 - 526 páginas
...Hand fo much on your gentility, " Which is an airy, and meer borrow'd thing, " From dead mens duft, and bones ; and none of yours, •? Except you make, or hold it. Who comes here ? SCENE II. Servant, Mr. Stephen? Kno'well, Brain-worm. Seru. Save you, gentlemen. Step. Nay, we do... | |
| John Bell - 1776 - 494 páginas
...Nor fland fo much on your gentility. Which is an airy, and mere borrow'd thing. From dead men's duft, and bones : and none of yours Except you make, or hold it. Who comes here ? Enter a Servant. Serv. Save you, gentlemen. Step. Nay, we do not ftand much o»our gentility, friend... | |
| 1787 - 530 páginas
...Nor fland fo much on our gentility, Which is an airy, and mere borrow 'd thing, From dead mens duft, and bones; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. Who com;s here ? Enter a Servant. Serv, Save you, gentlemen. Step. Nay, we do not ftand much on our gentility,... | |
| Francis Godolphin Waldron - 1792 - 356 páginas
...Nor ftand fo much on your gentility, Which is an airy, and meer borrow'd thing, From dead mens duft, and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it. Who comes here? D 2 SCENE " as fcarce, as be now partridge and pheafant. I fpeak not " this in difpraife of the falcons,... | |
| David Garrick - 1798 - 318 páginas
...the sume proportion still, Nor, stand so much on yourgentilhy. Which is an aery, and mere borrow'd thing, From dead men's dust, and bones: and none of yours Except you make, or hold it. Who comes her* ? Enter Enter a SERVANT. S0tv.- Save you, gentleman. Step. Nay, we do not stand rnucfron our gentilitv.... | |
| David Garrick - 1798 - 318 páginas
...yourself; No^ that your sail be bigger than your boat: But moderate your expet.ces now (at first) A? you may keep the same proportion still, Nor, stand so much on your gentility. Which is an aery, and mere borrow'd thing, From dead men's dust, and bones: and none of yours Except you make,... | |
| 1804 - 540 páginas
...yourself: Not, that your sail be bigger than your boat : But moderate your expences now (at first), As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand...yours Except you make, or hold it. Who comes here ? Enter a Servant. Sfrv. Save you, gentlemen. Step. Nay, we do not Stand much on our gentility, friend... | |
| British drama - 1804 - 1084 páginas
...yourself : Not, that your sail be bigger than your boat : But moderate your expences now (at first), As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand...your gentility, Which is an airy, and mere borrowed tiling, From dead men's dust and bones : and none of yours Except you make, or hold it. Who comes here... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 páginas
...contain yourself; Sot that your sail be bigger than your " But moderate vour expences now (at first) " As you may keep the same proportion still. ' " Nor...much on your gentility, " Which is an airy, and mere borrow'd thing, [none of yours, " From dead men's dust, and bones'; and " Except you make, or hold... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 páginas
...yourself; Not, that your sail be bigger than your boat : But moderate your expenccs now (at firstl, As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy, mere borrowed th'ing, From dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold... | |
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