 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2005 - 418 pages
...against his own nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself. (4.3.2125-31) And then, more generally: "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together. Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues" (4.3.2177-80).... | |
 | J. Mark Thompson, Candace Cotlove - 2005 - 324 pages
...lite with someone she loved, and at a time when she herself finally was capable ot loving in return. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together, our virtues would be proud if our faults whipp'd them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish'd by our virtues." (Shakespeare,... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2005 - 264 pages
...And again before the trial of Parolles and Bertram, the 'First Lord', speaking chorus-like, asserts : The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. (IV. iii.... | |
 | Peter Tremayne - 2007 - 351 pages
...and of Furies, and I know not what. . . ." He coughed again and then smiled, as if apologetically. 68 "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whispered this not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues." "The... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 pages
...'dignity: shame'), a tone and movement summed up with complete consistency in the concluding reflection: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud, if out faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 pages
...Shakespeare's play cannot be denied. The difference is a matter of metaphor rather than intellectual content: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipp'd them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish 'd by our virtues. (4.2:68-71)... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg, Mary Rosenberg - 2006 - 628 pages
...in All's Well sums up the incomprehensible paradoxes and complexities of life in his comment in 4.3: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipp'd them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues. How especially... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2006 - 186 pages
...another related image that the First Lord observes: "The web of our life," he contends more universally, "is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipt them not, and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues" (4.3.71-74).... | |
 | John D. Cox - 2007 - 368 pages
...1, 308). This passage sounds very like the First Lord's gnomic comment in All's Well That Ends Well: "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together. Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues" (4.3.70-73).... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 2007 - 1143 pages
...disinterested at the same time. To illustrate this, he quotes Shakespeare: 'The web of our lives is as of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not, and our vices would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.'1 This takes... | |
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. 
