 | F. O. Matthiessen - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 722 pages
...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...ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. But Melville has adapted these verbs of action so entirely to his own usage that they have become his... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Drama - 1840 - 344 pages
...By Heav'n, 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...he that doth redeem her thence might wear, Without conival, all her dignities." Mr. Tyler agrees with Sir Harris Nicolas, in tracing in certain letters... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1891 - 864 pages
...IV.,' I. iii. 201—5, except that the last two lines are made more “ huffing “ than Shakespeare's Where fathom-line could never touch the ground And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. Now I am not disinclined to find burlesques of Shakespeare in the writings of that day. Playwrights... | |
 | Amlin Gray - Drama - 1981 - 44 pages
...crown. By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor 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 honor by the hair! (A whinny is heard from behind the drop.) My horse is come! 0 let the hours be short... | |
 | James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...3.1.158-59): To pluck bright honor from the pale-fac'd moon, By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks, So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 340 pages
...HOTSPUR 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...Without corrival all her dignities; But out upon this half-faced fellowship! 201 HOISPUR] 05; not in QO 594 If.. .swlmSuchaman,ifhefallintothe roaring current,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Fiction - 1988 - 532 pages
...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, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks.— 5 There is a boldness and ease in the expression, and the images are very pictoresque. But, without... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...heaven, methinks it were an easy leap 200 To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could...Without corrival all her dignities. But out upon this half-faced fellowship! WORCESTER He apprehends a world of figures here, But not the form of what he... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Foakes, R. A. Foakes - Drama - 1998 - 538 pages
...honesty. By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor 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 honor by the locks. Hotspur in Henry IV, Part 1,1.3.201-5 For Hotspur "honor" means fame or glory gained... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Business & Economics - 2001 - 368 pages
...By heavens, 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...thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities. Mark, young gentlemen, he cares not for use ; he cares not for state ; he cares only for himself, and?... | |
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moon ; Or dire 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, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon this 
