 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues :7 nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, • with special soul Elected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : 7 nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, 4 with special soul Elected... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...name. 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 all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine ifiues: nor nature never lend*. The fmallefl fcrnple of her excellence, But, like a< thrifty goddefs,... | |
 | 1845 - 786 pages
...— ' Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, t'were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.' Art. II. De Poetics Vi Medico. Prxlectiones Academica Oxonii habita, Annis... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pages
...thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...(SHAKESPEARE.} HEAV'N dotlvwith us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 382 pages
...thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...name, Heaven .doth with us as we with torches do,, , Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, ,. . But, like a thrifty goddess,... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...obscurity and indolence. It seems as if he was enforcing the remark of our great poet : .,. if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. „,,.,.,.„ Shakctpeure. THE letter of advice to his brother Mr. Robert Sidney, when upon his travels,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : ' nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess,... | |
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Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. 
