 | 1880 - 534 pages
...picked of ten thousand, and that where much is given much will be required, for, Nature never lend» The smallest scruple of her excellence, But. like...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. Spirits are not finely touched, But to »и.1 Issues. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 206 pages
...her independence from him. It means recognizing that language is like Nature in that she never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. (Measure for Measure, 1.1.37-41) The trouble with lyric celibacy is that it fails to acknowledge that... | |
 | 1862 - 48 pages
...for time misspent and thoughts thrown away. As grand Will Shakspeare has it,— " Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like a...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use." It is well written of the hours, on the old sun-dial at Oxford, " Pereunt et Imputantur." sw D. THE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Chastity - 1995 - 148 pages
...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues;3 nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a...determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.4 But I do bend my speech 40 To one that can my part in him advertise. Hold, therefore, Angelo:5... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...alike As if we had 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...glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech To one that can my part in him advertise: Hold therefore, Angelo. In our remove, be... | |
 | Gillian Murray Kendall - Drama - 1998 - 232 pages
...alike As if we had 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...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. (1.1.32-40) "Thanks, but no thanks," might be the reply of the heroic actor cast as a mere torchbearer.... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 pages
...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a...glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. But I do spend my speech To one that can my part in him advertise. Hold therefore, Angelo: (Removes his Judge's... | |
 | Robert B. Bennett - Drama - 2000 - 204 pages
...for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like a...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. (1.1.32-40)'7 This cosmos is in a dynamic state of becoming; and in it humans are called to be productive... | |
 | Mike Sanders - Feminism - 2001 - 632 pages
...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues: nor nature never tends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like...Herself the glory of a Creditor, Both thanks and use." SHAKSPEARE. The moral virtues! how inspiring is the theme, replete as it is with all that can animate... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...determina Ella misma la gloria de un acreedor, A la vez la gratitud y el uso.' i. nor nature never lends / The smallest scruple of her excellence / But, like...determines / Herself the glory of a creditor, / Both (lumks and use [Ii36-40] Vincentio, duque de Viena, se está tomando unas vacaciones de la realidad... | |
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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. Spirits are not finely... 
