 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...sufficiency you join A zeal as willing, as your worth is able, And let them work. Sufficiency is si-ill in government; ability to execute his office. 4 ie...scruple of her excellence, 5 So much thy own property. 6 ie high purposes. But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...observer, doth thy history Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings * Are not thine own so proper6, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee....them not. 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1826 - 996 pages
...the observer, doth thy history Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, bad them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...do; Not light them for themselves: for if pur virtues * Cool. t Wild appl«s. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 31 Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...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 thrifty goddess,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on theeHeaven doth with us, as we with torehes do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues...'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are uot finely touch 'd, But to fine issues: nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...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 thrifty goddess,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...kalendar it is prime of day, Chaucer. The Shipmarmee Tale. Heaven doth with us as we with torches deal, Not light them for themselves ',for if our virtues...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Shakipeare. Measure for ileanere. Tell me what kind of thing is wit : For the first matter loves variety... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 pages
...observer, doth thy historyd Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee....them not. 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,... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pages
...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...them not ; 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...Endowment«. (4) So much thy own property. Thyself upon.thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth'with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves...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 thrifty goddess,... | |
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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. 
