 | 1861 - 522 sidor
...him better Than to die well, and not lus master's debtor. And of him we may say with Orlando, " О good old man, how well in thee appears the constant...antique world, when service sweat for duty, not for meed !" With equal truth, alas, we might continue the quotation, though with a wrested meaning, then but... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1862 - 284 sidor
...it is desirable should be freed from all blemish. Orlando says to Adam, an old serving-man : — " O, good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, Where service sweat for duty not for meed ! " Act ii. sc. 3. Mr. Walker remarks, that it is the first... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 sidor
...Orlando, and would have rejoiced to meet his twinbrother of the nineteenth century. Hence she had heard of 'The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed,' and had an idea in her untaught young brain that there can be no dishonour in even menial service,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 930 sidor
...Cemetery, Philadelphia, his native city. " O. good old man ! how well in theo appears The constant favour of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of i lit" r times, Whore none will sweat but for promotion. ' JOSEPH PRESTWICH.1 By HB WooDWAUD.2 Among... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 926 sidor
...Cemetery, Philadelphia, his native city. " O, good old man ! how well in tlieo appears The constant favour of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for tlio fashion of these times", Whore none will swe.it hut for promotion. ' JOSKPH PRESTWICn.1 Bv HB... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 sidor
...offers to accompany Orlando; and Orlando praises him as a survivor from some feudalised golden age: O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant...world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! 1 See OJ Campbell, Comicall Satyre; Lecocq, La Satire en Angleterre de 1588 st 1603, pp. 29 1ff; c/... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - 1979 - 294 sidor
...characters may approximate to the generic, as Adam does in As You Like It: Orlando expressly says: O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant...antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! (2. 3. 56-58.) Adam is at least given a name (though a symbolic one perhaps) : Bates, Williams, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 sidor
...me go with you, I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities. ORLANDO O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant...meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 60 Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the... | |
 | Jonathan Locke Hart - 1996 - 304 sidor
...lost past and thus as the measure or touchstone of modern decay: "O good old man." exclaims Orlando. "how well in thee appears / The constant service of the antique world" (2.3.56-57). and adds "thou art not for the fashion of these times" (59). He has. indeed. aged even... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 sidor
...necessities. ORLANDO O good old man, how well in thee appears 57 The constant service of the antique world, 58 When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 60 Where none will sweat but for promotion, 61 And having that, do choke their service up Even with... | |
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