 Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then...  The Works of William Shakespeare - Page 192by William Shakespeare - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Russ McDonald - 2004 - 952 pages
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 | Paula Jean Miller, Richard Fossey - 2004 - 304 pages
...play as a whole suggests a dialectic of mercy and discipline. But recall Isabella's eloquent words: "Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once,/...the vantage best have took / Found out the remedy" (2.2.73-75). For Isabella, our being redeemed from Original Sin by Christ's death and resurrection... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 pages
...prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. ISABELLA. Alas! alas! Why all the souls that are, were forfeit once; And He, that might the Vantage...then will breathe within your lips Like man new made! The beautiful things which Isabella is made to utter, have, like the sayings of Portia, become proverbial:... | |
 | George Wilkes - 2005 - 484 pages
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 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2005 - 418 pages
...top of judgment." As the heroine of another of Shakespeare's three "problem plays" says: ISABELLA: How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment,...will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (Measure for Measure, 2.2.827-31) She is pleading for her brother's life with a man at the height of... | |
 | Richard B. Hays - 2005 - 492 pages
...calls upon the hypocritical judge Angelo to see his life anew in light of God's judgment and grace: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...you be If He, which is the top of judgment, should 200 But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like... | |
 | John Keats - 2009 - 588 pages
...thing: the one for, the other against. That in favor is in Measure for Measure, Act 2, s. 2. Isabella: Alas, Alas! Why, all the Souls that were, were forfeit...the vantage best have took, Found out the Remedy. That against is in Twelfth Night, Act 3, s 2. Mariana: "for there is no Christian, that means to be... | |
 | Daniel Kornstein - 2005 - 296 pages
...lamenting the "just but severe law" (2.2.41): How would you be If He which is the top of judgement should But judge you as you are? O, think on that,...will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (2.2.77-81) Again, Escalus puts it to Angelo, Whether you had not sometime in your life Krred in this... | |
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