The Vale Shakespeare, Volume 28Hacon & Ricketts, 1902 |
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Page vi
... virtues , they 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 finely touch'd But to fine issues ...
... virtues , they 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 finely touch'd But to fine issues ...
Page xx
... virtue , That , in the working of your own affections , Had time coher'd with place , or place with wishing , Or that the resolute acting of your blood Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose , Whether you had not sometime in ...
... virtue , That , in the working of your own affections , Had time coher'd with place , or place with wishing , Or that the resolute acting of your blood Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose , Whether you had not sometime in ...
Page xxi
... virtue fall : Some run from brakes of vice , and answer none ; And some condemned for a fault alone . ( Enter Elbow , & Officers with Froth & Pompey . ) ELBOW . Come , bring them away : if these be good people in a commonweal that do ...
... virtue fall : Some run from brakes of vice , and answer none ; And some condemned for a fault alone . ( Enter Elbow , & Officers with Froth & Pompey . ) ELBOW . Come , bring them away : if these be good people in a commonweal that do ...
Page xxxv
... virtue ! — What's this , what's this ? Is this her fault or mine ? The tempter or the tempted , who sins most ? Ha ! Not she ; nor doth she tempt : but it is I That , lying by the violet in the sun , Do as the carrion does , not as the ...
... virtue ! — What's this , what's this ? Is this her fault or mine ? The tempter or the tempted , who sins most ? Ha ! Not she ; nor doth she tempt : but it is I That , lying by the violet in the sun , Do as the carrion does , not as the ...
Page xlii
... virtue hath a license in ' t , Which seems a little fouler than it is , To pluck on others . ANGELO . Believe me , on mine honour , My words express my purpose . ISABELLA . Ha ! little honour to be much believ'd , And most pernicious ...
... virtue hath a license in ' t , Which seems a little fouler than it is , To pluck on others . ANGELO . Believe me , on mine honour , My words express my purpose . ISABELLA . Ha ! little honour to be much believ'd , And most pernicious ...
Common terms and phrases
ABHORSON Barnardine bawd believe beseech betimes better brother caitiff child Claudio comfort condemn'd confess death Deputy diest dost thou doth Duke disguised Duke's ELBOW Enter Angelo Enter Duke Enter Isabella Enter Lucio ESCALUS evil Exeunt Exit Provost father faults fear fellow Friar Peter FRIAR THOMAS gentle give grace hanged hath head hear heart heaven hither holy honour husband Isabel Juliet justice live Look Lord Angelo LUCIÓ LUCIO.(Aside to Isabella maid MARIANA Marry Master Froth MEASURE FOR MEASURE mercy MISTRESS OVERDONE offence Officers pardon POMPEY poor pray prison Re-enter Provost SCENE scurvy SECOND GENTLEMAN shame Signior sirrah sister slander soul speak strange tapster tell thank thee there's thief thing thou art thou hast to-morrow tongue true truth varlet Varrius vice Vienna virtue warrant What's whipt wife woman word worship wrong'd YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Popular passages
Page xxxii - Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page xx - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page xliv - If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms.
Page xxx - Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy.
Page xlvi - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling:— 'tis too horrible!
Page xxxi - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page xci - They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page lvii - He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself, to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.
Page xliii - ... sleep, Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this That bears the name of life? Yet in this life Lie hid more thousand deaths; yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.
Page xviii - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt...