 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1871 - 544 Seiten
...the stir. Ah me ! it was one of those chances in life that perhaps we all miss on occasion : the " tide in the affairs of men that taken at the flood leads on to fortune." And about my crimson dress ? For a long while, shabby though I was, I could not look at it... | |
 | Emma Robinson - 1867 - 340 Seiten
...into his seat, waving his head with a deprecating gesture. " ' There is a tide,' " he exclaimed, " ' in the affairs of men, that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.' That's one of the most hackneyed sayings in the language, which plainly shows how true it... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 Seiten
...religion's vacant place With hollow form, and gesture, and grimace. COWPEK. CHANCE — FORTUNE. There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shillows and in miseries. SHAKSFEARK CHANCE... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1870 - 692 Seiten
...discovered reading. He layt down his book, and comes forward. TRAVERS. Yes, Shakespeare is right. " There is a tide in the affairs of men, that taken at the flood leads on to fortune." Nothing more true. There was such a tide in my own affairs, and I took it at the flood when... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1875 - 876 Seiten
...your Electro-Magnetic Telegraph. I congratulate you with all my heart. Shakespeare says, ' There is a tide in the affairs of men that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.' You are now fairly launched on what I hope will prove to you another Pactolus. I pede fausto... | |
 | Patrick Henry Woodward - 1876 - 596 Seiten
...be won so easily ? Others might be held back by silly scruples about honesty — not he. " There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." About the middle... | |
 | Robert Armitage Sterndale - 1879 - 348 Seiten
...what were my ambitious designs, it matters not to any one now. At one time I believed that There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." (The Englishman marvelled at this man, an Oriental, quoting Shakespeare on his death-bed.)... | |
 | 1886 - 808 Seiten
...following familiar utterance of Shakespeare been quoted, as justifying the doctrine of chance : "There is a tide in the affairs of men That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and m miseries." In fact, there... | |
 | Joseph Krauskopf - 1887 - 580 Seiten
...selfneglecting;" "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny;" "There is a tide in the affairs of men, that taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries;" and utterances,... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1874 - 624 Seiten
...wasted ; for not only are the objects before us of immediate and pressing necessity; but " There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" — Neglected, all is lost. Let us then rise at once to the lofty spirit of the occasion,... | |
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 
