 O'er-run and trampled on: Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours : For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand ; And with his arms out-stretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps...  Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things - Page 145de William Hazlitt - 1845 - 386 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Patrick D. Morrow - 1980 - 270 pages
...about taking one moment in time and turning it into a heroic moment. And farewell goes out sighing. Let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was. For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and culminating... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 228 pages
...trampled on. Then what they do in present. Though less than yours in past. must o'ertop yours; For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th'hand And. with his arms outstretched as he would fly. Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles.... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1983 - 232 pages
...voices. Though far from ordinary people even then, they lived and breathed. Yet this is how it goes. For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. — Troilus and Cressida November Subject: birds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1987 - 260 pages
...parting guest by th'hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: the welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek 170 Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,... | |
 | Eric Gerald Stanley, T. F. Hoad - 1988 - 224 pages
...provides Ulysses with an even more chilling domestic image to describe the fate of his vocabulary: Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. The welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.... | |
 | George T. Wright - 1988 - 366 pages
...then to complete the period in a line of only four to seven syllables often has a strong impact: For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, Shakespeare's Metrical Art And with his arms outstretch 'd as he would fly, Grasps in the... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pages
...possibility that time may bring change and yet also a violent fear that it might' (Erikson 1959, 126). 'For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And with his arms outstretch 'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...trampled on. Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. The welcome ever smiles,... | |
 | Noel Annan - 1997 - 300 pages
...is now being hailed as the hero of the Greeks. Then he tries reason: fame is destroyed by time, 'For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.' But Achilles is not to be moved. He has private... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pages
...been forgotten, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion": For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. The welcome ever smiles,... | |
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