 | John Quincy Adams - Constitutional history - 1839 - 138 pages
...I have the honour to belong; I offer you, gentlemen, the return of its grateful acknowledgments. If "In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest...But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then lend the eye a terrible aspect — Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height"—... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1839 - 556 pages
...I have the honour to belong, I offer you, gentlemen, the return of its grateful acknowledgments. If "In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest...But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then lend the eye a terrible aspect — ******* Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1839 - 508 pages
...animate his soldiers to the battle of Agincourt by a speech with this passage ; — " In peace there nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness and humility: But, when the blast of war blows in our cars, Then imitate the action of the tyger : Stiffen the sinews; summon up the blood; Resolve fair... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1905 - 516 pages
...To write this letter in my usual prose ; Let me however just remind you — thus : In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility,...the tiger : Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood — In short, take care to land upon the point. Farewell, remember me to SULLIVAN, JEFFRIES and others.... | |
 | Frederick Coombs - Phrenology - 1841 - 178 pages
...Location — about one inch behind the top of the ear, giving great width around and behind the ears. "But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then...summon up the blood — Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect — Let it pry through the portage of the head... | |
 | James Hamilton Fennell - Animal behavior - 1841 - 610 pages
...blows in our ears, Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage: Then lend the eye a terrible aspect : Let it...pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully, as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more2; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest...sinews, summon up the blood', Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage : Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage of the head,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 472 pages
...the breach, dear friends, once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility...sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage : Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage 1 of the head,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more2; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest...action of the tiger : Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood3, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage : Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 594 pages
...Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more2; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest...action of the tiger : Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood3, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage : Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it... | |
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger... 
