 | John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, William Shakespeare - 2004 - 100 sider
...you To render up the great seal presently Into our hands. King Henry VIII, ACT IV, SCENE II GRIFFITH. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We...please your highness To hear me speak his good now? King Henry VIII, ACT V, SCENE I KING. Stand up, good Canterbury: Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 596 sider
...tragedy. In act v. 1 we have " Men's injuries we write in brass," which brings to mind Shakespeare's line, "Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water." (Cumberland reproduced this drama, with some alterations, in 1780). Duke Combe, William Combe, author... | |
 | Joan Chittister - 2005 - 148 sider
...order to do something for the rest of it. The publication of other people's vices is not a virtue. "Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues / We write in water," Shakespeare noted. And that may be the most damaging vice of them all. The saint goes deeper and deeper... | |
 | Peter Wilby - 2006 - 182 sider
...most recent biographer quotes Shakespeare as a suitable epitaph on his life and posthumous reputation: 'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.' There is justice in that. Yet Suez was more than a one-off disaster at the end of a long career of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2011 - 355 sider
...gave The clergy ill example. GRIFFITH Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues 50 We write in water. May it please your Highness To hear me speak his good now? KATHERINE Yes, good Griffith; I were malicious else. GRIFFITH This cardinal, 55 Though from an humble... | |
 | Elizabeth H. Hageman, Katherine Conway - 2007 - 306 sider
...invokes the metaphor of writing to reflect on the inherent flaw in collective memories of men's lives: "Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues / We write in water" (4.2.45-46). The elevation and securing of memory in the seemingly reliable form of writing (echoing... | |
 | Christopher G. Moore - 2009 - 330 sider
...Gould." "Sometimes I wish you were." Colonel Pratt thought about what Shakespeare had said about evil: Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water. The waitress came and took their orders. Patrons filtered out after the game ended. "Weerawat is betting... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 sider
...oboes beneath the stage in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's resonant commonplaces echo in a vacuum. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. This is like and unlike Julius Caesar, where we hear how the evil that men do lives after them, a certain... | |
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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 ? Kath. 
