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" O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed... "
The gamester, by E. Moore. The tragedy of Jane Shore, by N. Rowe. The London ... - Page 23
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 121

1861 - 522 pages
...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...
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On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its ..., Volume 1

Samuel Bailey - 1862 - 284 pages
...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...
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London Society, Volume 19

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1871 - 822 pages
...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,...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1898 - 930 pages
...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...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1898 - 926 pages
...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...
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Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy

Leo Salingar - Drama - 1974 - 372 pages
...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/...
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Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry: A Study of His Earlier Work in Relation ...

M. C. Bradbrook - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 294 pages
...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...
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Four Comedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...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...
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Reading the Renaissance: Culture, Poetics, and Drama

Jonathan Locke Hart - European literature - 1996 - 304 pages
...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...
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As You Like it

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 164 pages
...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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