 Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then...  Measure for measure. Comedy of errors - Page 37by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | 1841 - 744 pages
...immediately pointed oat the following terse, but transcendant passage from ' Measure for Measure.' ' Why. all the souls that were, were forfeit once ;...And HE that might the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy.' It would pass the bounds of the most exalted eulogy to record the prelate's answer,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1841 - 710 pages
...*** the following terse, but transcendant passage from " Measure for Measure." " Why, all the touls that were, were forfeit once ; And HE that might the Vantage best have took, Found out the remedy." It would pass the bounds of the most exalted eulogy to record the prelate's answer,... | |
 | George Daniel - England - 1842 - 320 pages
...immediately pointed out the following terse, but transcendant passage from " Measure for Measure." " Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ;...And HE that might the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy." It would pass the bounds of the most exalted eulogy to record the prelate's answer,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...what a prisoner. Ang. Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waote your words. Isab. Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit...And He that might the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, who is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one-half so good a grace, As mercy does. Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ;...And he, that might the 'vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - Bible - 1843 - 264 pages
...7. This look of thine will hurl my soul from Heaven, And fiends will snatch at it ! OTHELLO, v. 2. All the souls that were, -were forfeit once : And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2. SPARROW. I will buy nine sparrows for a penny, and his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. Isab. Alas, alas ! Why, all the soula that were, were forfeit once ; And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you... | |
 | 1904 - 926 pages
...Makes the Creator unto every creature, Let us set beside these such passages as Shakespeare's — Alas, alas! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;...And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy; ! or Shelley's— Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance... | |
 | 1878 - 892 pages
...in words, and deeds, and sufferings, which at length culminated in the atoning death of the cross. " All the souls that were were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. " Moved by intense sympathy with men, His life of omnipotence became the life of sacrifice.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 370 pages
...have kissed each other." — Psalm Ixxxv. 10. (118.) Thus, Shakspeare, Measure for Measure, act ii. " Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy." " It is certain that we cannot conceive any possible mode, except the revealed mode... | |
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