For it is the property of crime to extend its mischief over innocence, as it is of virtue to extend its blessings over many that deserve them not ; while frequently the author of the one or of the other is not punished or rewarded at all. Here in this... Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel - Page 88by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
| Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832 - 378 pages
...up to the mysterious and inexorable fates. " For it is the property of crime to extend its mischiefs over innocence, as it is of virtue to extend its blessings...that deserve them not, while frequently the author of one or the other is not, as far as we can see, either punished or rewarded," * But there 'sa heaven... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in art - 1837 - 400 pages
...up to the mysterious and inexorable fates. "For it is the property of crime to extend its mischiefs over innocence, as it is of virtue to extend its blessings...that deserve them not, while frequently the author of one or the other is not, as far as we can see, either punished or rewarded."| But there's a heaven... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1842 - 349 pages
...at Wilhelm ; who, with the firmest assurance that he was in the right, went on as follows : <l£Tt pleases us, it flatters us to see a hero acting on...frequently the author of the one or of the other is not punished or rewarded at all. Here in this play of ours, how strange ! The Pit of darkness sends... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1850 - 398 pages
...up to the mysterious and inexorable fates. " For it is the property of crime to extend its mischiefs over innocence, as it is of virtue to extend its blessings...that deserve them not, while frequently the author of one or the other is not, as far as we can see, either punished or rewarded."* But there's a heaven... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 508 pages
...thing,' said Wilhelm ; ' I will merely show you what my own conceptions of it are.' Aurelia rose up from her cushion ; leaned upon her hand, and looked at...frequently the author of the one or of the other is not punished or rewarded at all. Here in this play of ours, how strange ! The Pit of darkness sends... | |
| Richard James Morrison - Marriage - 1851 - 72 pages
...influence to the youthful and the innocent ; " for it is the property of crime to extend its mischiefs over innocence, as it is of virtue to extend its blessings over many that deserve them not." There can be no doubt that, as far as the world has hitherto gone, the art of Love has not generally... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1858 - 348 pages
...is full of plan. Here we have no villain punished on some self-conceived and rigidly- accomplished scheme of vengeance : a horrid deed occurs; it rolls...frequently the author of the one or of the other is not punished or rewarded at all. Here in this play of ours, how strange ! The Pit of darkness sends... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1864 - 352 pages
...is full of plan. Here we have no villain punished on some self-conceived and rigidly -accomplished scheme of vengeance : a horrid deed occurs ; it rolls...frequently the author of the one or of the other is not punished or rewarded at all. Here in this play of ours, how strange ! The Pit of darkness sends... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1865 - 426 pages
...Poets and historians would willingly persuade us that so proud a lot may fall to man. In Hamlet'we are taught another lesson : the hero is without a...frequently the author of the one or of the other is not punished or rewarded at all. Here in this play of ours, how strange ! The Pit of darkness sends... | |
| 1873 - 480 pages
...whom the charge of Ophelia's death can be laid ; his was the fault, not hers, since, as Goethe says, " It is the property of crime to extend its mischief...it is of virtue to extend its blessings over many who deserve them not.'' Juliet we can admire, wonder at and delight in ; we can watch with deepest... | |
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