 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
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 262 pages
...conceived, which was in fact, airy nothing. XioeaV habitation, — Belonging- to some place. -" So it falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, Whytheawe wreafc the. vahte.; thetrwe'&M' The virtue that possession wouht jantt shew... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pity'd, and excus'd Of every hearer. For it so falls out, That what we have, we prize not to the worth While we enjoy it , but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 pages
...uniformly ; and at last becomes extreme, when the pleasure of gratification is reduced to nothing : -It so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, Why then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pity'd, and excus'd, Of every hearer: for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, While we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why then we rack the value; then we find The virtue,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pitied and excus'd, . Of every hearer : For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not...it ; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack 4 the value ; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours: — So... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...maiatain'd, Upon the instant that she w;is accus'd, Shall be lamented, pity'd, and excus'd, Of every hearer : for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, Why then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pitied, and excus'd, Of every hearer : 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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 pages
...uniformly ; and at last becomes extreme, when the pleasure of gratification is reduced to nothing ; —II so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, AV hy then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...tmdntain'd, 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 t we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack J the value ; then we find The virtue,... | |
 | John Reid - 1821 - 454 pages
...our proper feelings, until death has prepared the way for the reversionary inheritance. " for so it falls out, That what we have, we prize not to the worth Whilst we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, "Why then we rack the value, then we find The virtue... | |
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