 O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.  Characters of Shakespear's Plays - Page 87by William Hazlitt - 1817 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...ingratitudesmakes the point that a man is judged by his present behavior, not his past reputation: O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was;...are subjects all To envious and calumniating Time. But Ulysses' shrewd opportunism is no safeguard. The future reveals the true meaning of the present... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...compositor. And Farewell goes out sighing. O. let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; 170 For beauty. wit. High birth. vigour of bone. desert...kin That all with one consent praise new-born gauds. Though they are made and moulded of things past. And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...fickle where values (again a concomitant of order) are concerned: . . . beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity,...world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And [give] to dust, that is a little gilt,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1987 - 260 pages
...Grasps in the comer: the welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek 170 Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit,...That all, with one consent, praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than... | |
 | Mihoko Suzuki - Authority in literature - 1989 - 292 pages
...(2.1.12—13) is chosen to be the champion for the Greeks. Later in the play, Ulysses warns Achilles that beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in...— That all with one consent praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...service, I.ove, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating I ime. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin— That all with one consent praise new-born gauds. (3.3.145) The pun on "gauds" and "Gods" hints that newborn Gods will indeed succeed those who might... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...comer. The welcome ever smiles, Remuneration for the thing it was. For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity,...world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...sighing. Let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity,...world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust, that is a little gilt, More... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - Canon (Literature) - 1999 - 188 pages
...thing it was; For beaut), wit. High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charm, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time....kin That all with one consent praise new-born gauds. Though thev are made and moulded of things past. And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 432 pages
...ideology of empire. Distinct 70 See Ulysses' speech in Troilus and Cressida 1n. iii. 1 7 5—9: 'One touch of nature makes the whole world kin — | That all with one consent praise new-born gauds, | Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt | More laud... | |
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