 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kat h. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 142
...bottom, and let nothing go till you understand it as thoroughly as your powers will enable you. — Men's evil manners live in brass their virtues we write in water. — A good word is an easy obligation not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.... | |
 | 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...virtues than their vices. But, alas for human nature ! the latter are by far the most numerous, or else " men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water." To relieve ourselves for a little from the dreadful deeds of blood which have so lately engaged our... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...motive. The honest man does that from duty, which the man of honor does for the sake of character. 35. Men's evil manners live in brass ; — their virtues we write in water. 36. Fine sense, and exalted sense, are not half so valuable as common sense. There are forty men of... | |
 | Charles Ferrers Raymund Palmer - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...accused, or mitigate their condemnation. Shakespeare well remarks, in speaking of cardinal Wolsey, " Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water." So concerning the bailiffs, the bad remains on lasting record : whilst to learn the good, we fain must... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 186
...diripienda ferant.' — Tibull. Ш. 6. 28. luiipûv Se 4,aÚЛwc îрKov еis SSap ypdipe. — Menand. ' Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues ' We write in water.'— Shaksp. Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. CARM. XLIV. The poet seems exceedingly indignant with Lesbia's infidelity.... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 938
...and his Wife. The left hand of the fair statue, severed from the wrist, lies beside the effigies. " Men's evil manners live in brass — their virtues we write in water," and on the silent stream of Time the name of Constance de Lingard — with that of many a self-sacrificing... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...will supply future commentators with a parallel passage to the well-known apothegm in Shakspeare : — Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. On ne se souvient que du mal ; L'ingratitude regne au monde : L'injure se grave en metal, Et le bienfait... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...scarce ever unanimously agreed in any other particular." The maxim is assuredly no longer true, that " Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water :" — the office of modern biography is more frequently to engrave the tablets of its heroes with... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...will supply future commentators with a parallel passage to the well-known apothegm in Shakspeare : — Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. On ne se souvient que du mal ; L'ingratitude regne au monde : L'injure se grave en metal, Et le bienfait... | |
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Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 
