 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 pages
...knees ; and all my life to come I'll lend you all my life to do your service." Again " Isabel, Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me; Hold up your hands,...better For being a little bad : so may my husband. O, Isabel I will you not lend a knee I " No dialectics, no right-angled triangles here. This is a woman,... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 594 pages
...life to do your service." Again : " Isabel, Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me ; Hold up your bands, say nothing, I'll speak all. They say, best men are...better For being a little bad : so may my husband. O, Isabel I will you not lend a knee ! " No dialectics, no right-angled triangles here. This is a woman,... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...and Isabella: I hope you will not mock me with a husband! I crave no other, nor no better man. Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me. Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all. They say most men are moulded out of faults. And for the most, become much more the better For being a little... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...in the process of learning about existence as they leave us: Mariana: They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more...better For being a little bad. So may my husband. (5.1.444-46) Death, as Sir Charles Mountford has said, is the end of all calamity; but in the words... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...would break And take her hence in horror. MARIANA Isabel! Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me, 43o Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all. They say best men are moulded out of faults, 416 confiscation] F2; confutation F 417 with all] F; uirlull FZ 421 sn] Johnson; noi in F 422 sn[ Johnson;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...Hold up your hands, say nothing ; I'll speak all. They say best men are moulded out of faults, 440 And for the most become much more the better For being a little bad. So may my husband. 0 Isabel, will you not lend a knee ? DUKE He dies for Claudio's death. ISABELLA (kneeling) Most bounteous... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...we have seen of Angelo's corruption, after all, Mariana's argument for leniency on the grounds that "best men are moulded out of faults, / And for the...better / For being a little bad; so may my husband" (5.1.439-41) seems to lean very heavily on "a little bad" and "may." In any case, by forcing Angelo... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Chastity - 1995 - 148 pages
...brother's ghost his paved bed would break, And take her hence in horror. MARIANA Isabel, 440 Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me; Hold up your hands,...all. They say best men are moulded out of faults, 112 5, For being a little bad; so may my husband. 0 Isabel, will you not lend a knee? DUKE He dies... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 220 pages
...we are moved to think how much love and wisdom such an apparently trivial generalization conceals: They say best men are moulded out of faults, And,...become much more the better For being a little bad. v, ยป,437-9 As in Bertram's 'O pardon!', Shakespeare is bent on avoiding explosion of speech, a call... | |
 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - History - 1995 - 332 pages
...of Angelo in the last scene can also be said of Isabella and the Duke: They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. (5.1.444-46) I do not mean to suggest that Shakespeare takes the part of the alehouse society against... | |
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I'll speak all. 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. 
