 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 385 페이지
...note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. ACT I. VIRTUE GIVEN TO BE EXERTED. HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light...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, she determines... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824
...thy belongings * Are not thine own so proper f, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues J : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she... | |
 | British poets - 1824
...starv'd, and ravenous. There's ne'er a villain, dwelling in all Denmark, But he's an arrant knave. VIRTUE. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Forgive me this my virtue : For, in the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826
...thy belongings * Are not thine own so proper6, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do : Not light...Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues 7 : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper5, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues6: nor nature never lends7 The smallest scruple of her excellence, 5 So much thy own property.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper5, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues6: nor nature never lends7 The smallest scruple of her excellence, 5 So much thy own property.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 360 페이지
...bestows blind gifts, that still have nursl, They sec not who, nor how, but utill the worst. MCCXXXVT. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light...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, she determines... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 82 페이지
...frivolous ground to be satisfactorily maintained. In the play of "Measure for Measure" there occurs — f Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues. — ACT I. SCENE 1. The poet here manifestly alludes to the passage in St. MARK, v. 25, &c. where Jesus... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830
...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...Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues :e nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like a thrifty goddess, she determines... | |
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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. 
