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And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of read more
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of honor to disgrace's feet?
Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
[Lat., Id demum est homini read more
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
[Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.]
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is read more
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at read more
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.