 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 498 pages
...virtues •, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themfelves : for if our virtues » Did not go forth of us, 'twere...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine iffues : ' nor Nature never lends The fmalleft fcruple of her excellence, But,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 494 pages
...Heav'n doth with us, as we with torches do, Not light them for themfelves : for if our virtues (z) Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine iflues : nor nature never lends The fmalleft fcrupleofher excellence, But, like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 546 pages
...virtues, them on thee '. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches <lo ; Not light them for themfelves : for if our virtues * Did not go forth of us, 'twere...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely tquch'd, But to fine iffues ' : nor nature never lends * The fmalleft fcruple of her excellence, But,... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1779 - 462 pages
...muft ftarve, Or eat up one another. The Poets have many Paflagcs {uvular to this. Thus Sbaktfpeare • If our Virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Mtafure for Mcafure, Act I . Scene 2. And Harare tells us, Virtue concealed is of little Confequence.... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do, r X. SELECT SENTENCES. ig Not light them for themfelves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine i flues : nor nature never lends The fmalleft fcruple of her excellence, But,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann - 1786 - 654 pages
...virtues, them on thce. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themlelves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not ' finely touch'd, But to fine iflues : k nor nature never lends The fmalleft fcruple of her excellence, But,... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1787 - 494 pages
...fate of place, and the rough.brake That virtue muft go through. -. • ^Henry VIII. A. i, S. 2, • - If our virtues . Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.. Meafurefor Meafure, '. .-' Moft dangerous Is that temptation, that doth. goad us on To fin in loving... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 384 pages
...There is a kind of character in thy life That, to the observer, doth thy history go 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... | |
 | Tate Wilkinson - Actors - 1790 - 302 pages
...doth with us, as we with torches do, • Not light them for ourfelvts : for if our virtues Did net go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch,ct But to fine iiTues : Nor Nature never lends The imalleft fcruple of her excellence, But, like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1792 - 50 pages
...virtues ; they on thee. . Heav ? n doth with us, as we with torches do, Not light them for themfelves: for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine iflues: nor Nature never lends The fmalleft fcruple of her excellence, But, like... | |
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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... 
