 Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2691897Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...maintained, Upon the instant that she was accused, Shall be lamented, pitied, and excused Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accused, Shall be lamented, pitied, and excused Of every hearer: something else. * Unto the state of Venice. GRATIANO. О upright judge! — Mark, Jew: — lackt and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show... | |
 | Marilyn Waring - 1999 - 368 pages
...ye are of more value than many sparrows."8 And in Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare wrote: For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to be worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value. In the sixteenth... | |
 | Irwin H. C - 2001 - 366 pages
...with the same easy unconcern of their security under British rule. " It so falls out That what we hare we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - 2002 - 258 pages
...antiromance. It may be philosophical pragmatism, like that expressed by the Friar in Much Ado about Nothing: "what we have we prize not to the worth / Whiles we...being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack the value" (4.1.218-20).68 However, I see in the speech nothing but fear, sensitivity, vulnerability, and a precarious... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accused, Shall be lamented, pitied, and excused Of every hearer: @2 2 lackt and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show... | |
 | Felicia Hemans - 2002 - 506 pages
...brackets indicate material supplied by the present editor. Much Ado About Nothing, 4.1.215-17; Friar: "... for it so falls out / That what we have we prize not to the worth / Whiles we enjoy it ..." . . . .You see I am writing on the anniversary of George's birthday; and I know you will pray... | |
 | Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy, Adrienne Sarah Ackary Stone - 2003 - 390 pages
...interference will produce good results or even when it is necessary. 8 A Defence of the Status Quo JAMES ALLAN That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles...being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. (Much Ado About Nothing,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 164 pages
...excus'd 216 Of. by. Of every hearer. For it so falls out 217 not . . . worth: as much as it is worth. That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, 219 rack: stretch out, exaggerate. Why, then we rack the value, then we find 220 The virtue that possession... | |
 | Karen Newman - 2005 - 176 pages
...another 'suppose', her feigned death. He argues the fundamental comic perspective of losing to find: for it so falls out That what we have we prize not...being lack'd and lost, Why then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours: so will it fare with... | |
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