 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 Works of Ben Jonson - Strana 12autor/autoři: Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Ben Jonson - 1921 - 572 str.
...ftand fo much on your gentilitie, Which is an aerie, and meere borrow'd thing, [8] From dead mens duft, and bones : and none of yours Except you make, or hold it. Who comes here ? ACT I. SCENE II. SERVANT, Mr- STEPHEN, KNO'WELL, BRAYNE-WORME. CAue you, gentlemen.... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 str.
...than your boat: But mod'rate your expences now (at first) As you may keep the same proportion still. Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy,...bones : and none of yours Except you make, or hold it. HYMN TO DIANA QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver... | |
 | Harry Christian Schweikert - 1928 - 864 str.
...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 borrowed thing, 85 From dead men's dust and bones; and none of yours, Except you make, or hold it.... | |
 | Emily Post - 1927 - 762 str.
...Meanwhile, to guard against conceit in his new knowledge, he may at odd moments recall Ben Jonson's lines: "Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy, and mere borrowed thing, From dead men's dust, and bones: And none of yours, Except you make, or hold it." ETIQUETTE... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 630 str.
...your boat: But moderate your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still. 80 Nor stand so much on your gentility, Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing, From dead men's dust and bones : and none of yours Except you make or hold it. Who... | |
 | Thomas Dekker - 2001 - 486 str.
...same proportion still. 80 Nor stand so much on your gentility,0 Which is an airy and mere borrowed thing, From dead men's dust and bones, and none of yours Except you make, or hold it. Who comes here? [Enter a] Servant SERVANT Save you,0 gentlemen. 85 STEPHEN Nay, we don't stand much... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - 2010 - 291 str.
...itself in melting and blazing. Knowell warns Stephen that gentility is merely an airy and mere borrowed thing, From dead men's dust and bones: and none of yours Except you make or hold it. (1.1.81-83) This makes the contrast between substantial and insubstantial kinds of bodily being cognate... | |
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