...avail ourselves of it. He believed that it might be said of nations as of individuals': — There ia a tide in the affairs of man Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is spent In shallows and miseries. On such u full...

...hill-mounting, This downward path is easy, but there's no turning back." Shakspeare tells us that there is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune : omitted, all the voyage of the after life is spent in shoals and miseries. That will apply...

...time. I went on shore a few days after, and never saw more " service " afloat. 96 CHAPTER VII. " There is a tide in the affairs of man Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." —SHAKESPEARE. THE march of the Duke of Terceira from the Algarvo was a complete success....

...the "immense Jdvantages " which were to follow. Here, then, was a fix. I had been taught that "there is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ;" but I had elsewhere been urged, and you, Gentlemen, know where, to have nothing to do...

...our cause is rife ; The enemy increaseth every day ; We, at the height, are ready to decline : There is a tide in the affairs of man, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. With stammering...

...doubt the truth of the words to which I listened. The greatest of all dramatists says, — " There is a tide in the affairs of man, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." and, singular as it may seem, it appeared that the circumstance which decided George Mitchell's...

...his fingers ; now he can dine off gold plate if he chooses. There is a well-known saying that there is a tide in the affairs of man, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. It is a popular fallacy. Such a tide, with such a golden prize in its flood, comes to not...

...maudlin condition he is sentimental, and appropriates Hamlet to himself in this fashion,- — " There is a tide in the affairs of man which, taken at the flood, leads on to — drunkenness! " Swells, snobs, swindlers, blacklegs, pickliockets, prize-fighters, prostitutes,...

...wickedness, It grows up by degrees. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, A King and no King, act v. so. 4. There is a tide in the affairs of man, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. SHAKSPEARE,. Julius Ccesar, act iv. sc. 3. There is another and a better world. KOTZEBUE,...

...maudlin condition he is sentimental, and appropriates Hamlet to himself in this fashion, — " There is a tide in the affairs of man which, taken at the flood, leads on to — drunkenness!" Swells, snobs, swindlers, blacklegs, pickpockets, prize-fighters, prostitutes,...