 | Charles Wordsworth - Bible - 1864 - 392 pages
...Queen, his mother, from all intercourse with her wicked and incestuous husband, thus addresses her :— Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness,...the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency. Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 4. But our poet would remind us further, that, if a virtuous habit is to be formed,... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...are contributory to private happiness. Solitude, Cap. n. — JG ZIMMERMAN. REFRAINING. The Power of Refrain to-night : And that shall lend a kind of easiness...For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And master the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency. Hamlet, Act in. Scene iv. — SHAKsi'ERE.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 pages
...Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, — That to the use of actions...or throw him out With wondrous potency. Once more, good-night : And when you are desirous to be bless' d, I'll blessing beg of you. — For this same... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 212 pages
...virtue, if you have it not. That monster, Custom, 2 who all sense doth eat— Oft habit's devil—is angel yet in this,— That to the use of actions fair...For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And master the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency. Once more, good night: And when you are desirous... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - English poetry - 1865 - 394 pages
...secherebbe," — PEOVEBB. " How use doth breed a habit in a man," — SHAEISPBARE. " Refrain to night And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next...For use almost can change the stamp of nature And cither curb the devil or throw him ont With wondrous potency."— SHAKESPEARE, As with the Body's garb... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1866 - 456 pages
...extract. Hamlet is addressing his mother: " That monster custom, who all sense doth eat Of habits devil, is angel yet in this : That to the use of actions...the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency." Act iiL sc. 4. The expression all sense of habit's devil, which has been much canvassed, and even vindicated,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 788 pages
...this,(102> That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptiy is put on. Refrain to-night ; And that shall lend...almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil, or throw him out(103) With wondrous potency. Once more, good night : And when you... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 724 pages
...a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat — Of habits devil, — is angel yet in this,— That to the use of actions...For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And master thus the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency. Once more, good night : And when you... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 706 pages
...a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat— Of habits devil, — is angel yet in this, — That to the use of actions...For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And master the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency. Once more, good night: And when you are desirous... | |
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on. 
