 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...either. One of the most venerable of modern puns is Sir Henry Wotton's slur upon an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." So pleased with it was the good knight himself, as to try to give it European currency by translating... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1865 - 922 pages
...translation of an English pun. Walton says that Sir Henry "could have been content that his Latin could j i lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) wus not •o expressed in Latin as would admit... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1867 - 484 pages
...his own Court. His conduct reminds us of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an ambassador — that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. A pun upon the term, foyerAmbassador. so by my Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money themselves,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 622 pages
...reside. Sir H. Wotton gives the following punning definition of the duties of an ambassador. — " An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." LONG OP YOU. Act II., Sc. 1. " 'T is long of you that spur me with such questions." Through you —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 484 pages
...Longaville. t> To Jit— to reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning <it fruition of an ambassador — "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." ' The folio reads brcitc. G 2 Stands in attainder of eternal shame : Suggestions* are to others, as... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...embassies, but he lost that monarch's conf1dence by writing in a friend's album, as a definition, " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," which was quoted eight years after by an adversary of the king, as one of the principles on which he... | |
 | Christian life - 1870 - 858 pages
...is due as much in one respect as the other. He it was who gave the definition of an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." And when his advice was onco asked in a matter of diplomatic tactics, he said, " Ever speak the truth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 668 pages
...many examples. — [There is here doubtless a play upon the word, as in Sir Henry Wotton's definition: 'An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.' — ED.] 126. I must] STEEVENS: Alluding to the proverb: 'Patience perforce is medicine... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Architecture. Hanging was the worst use man could be put t0. The Disparity between Buchingham ancl Essex. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.2 1 "sun" in Reliquia Wottoniana, Eds. 165I, 1672, 1685. 2 In a letter to Velserus, 1612,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...many MSS. — Hannah, The Courtly Poets. Harrington. — Daniel. — Dray ton. 1 49 Wotton continued-] An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.1 The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.3 A Panegyric to King Charles.... | |
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An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
