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Dramatists of the Restoration: John Crowne - Page 117
edited by - 1874
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Measure for measure. Comedy of errors

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 384 pages
...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 virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...belongings 5 Are not thine own so proper,6 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 virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...belongings 5 Are not thine own so proper, 6 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 virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1845 - 786 pages
...and experience, they might listen with profit to the teaching of our dramatic bard — ' 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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pages
...belonging 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 virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 4

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...publick claim to their communications, enforced by the authority of the great moral poet : " Heaven doth with us as we with torches do^ Not light them for themselves." Perhaps the present state of society tends in a peculiar degree to foster general selfishness of character....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...belongings Are not thine own so proper ', as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thec. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth with us, 'twere all alike Asifweh;ulthem not. Spiritsarenotfinelytouch'd,...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 382 pages
...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 virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...pen Turns them to shape, and gives-.to airy nothing; A local habile. 'ion and a 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 had them not. Spirits are not...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. fieav'n doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did net go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them hot. Spirits are not...
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