 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1828 - 288 pages
...homeward. CHAPTER XI. Heaven doth with us, as we wi'h torches do, Not light them for themselves: fop if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Measure for Measure. IP Lacy's homeward journey was under a dull, unvarying sky, and through an uninteresting... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...bestows blind gifts, that still have nursl, They sec not who, nor how, but utill the worst. MCCXXXVT. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues: nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 pages
...kalendar it is prime of day, Chaucer. The Shipmarmee Tale. Heaven doth with us as we with torches deal, Not light them for themselves ',for if our virtues...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Shakipeare. Measure for ileanere. Tell me what kind of thing is wit : For the first matter loves variety... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...bestows blind gifts, that still have nurst, They see not who, nor how, but still the worst. MCdXXXVI. Heaven doth With us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike But... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues :* nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pages
...frivolous ground to be satisfactorily maintained. In the play of "Measure for Measure" there occurs — f Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...alike As if we had them not ; spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues. — ACT I. SCENE 1. The poet here manifestly alludes to the passage in... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 pages
...Angelo, There is a kind of character in thy life, That, to the observer, doth thy historyd Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...Endowment«. (4) So much thy own property. Thyself upon.thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth'with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues :* nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper,* as to wasto Thyself upon thy virtues^ them on ihee. Made love to Ncdar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul ; and she, sweet lady, dotes, D virtuel Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike Aa if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touchM,... | |
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That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues... 
