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Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
Thomas Gray
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Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

thomas gray

— St. 11. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))

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She's all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.

john donne

— c.1595-1605  'The Sun Rising', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed.


— Canto III, line 1047.

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But Hudibras gave him a twitch As quick as lightning in the breech, Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd; Because a kick in that part more Hurts honour than deep wounds before.


— Canto III, line 1065.

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But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 4, line 55.

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As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged, Because a kick in that place more Hurts Honour than deep wounds before.


— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto III, line 1,066.

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If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed.


— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 1,047.

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