 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...callous attitude of the conventional code. Such is our study of Bertram. As one of the Lords says : The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. (iv. iii. 83) IV Helena possesses those old-world qualities... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...virtue none, It is a dropsied honour. Good alone Is good without a name King — All's Well II.iii The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. First Lord — All's Well IV.iii Virtue is bold, and goodness... | |
 | 1984 - 440 pages
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 | Arthur F. Kinney - Drama - 2004 - 198 pages
...First Lord makes this clear in what is a strikingly summary observation in All's Well That Ends Well: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. (4.3.69-72) The very materiality of a web reveals its simplicity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2004 - 288 pages
...that his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. Lord G The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. Enter a [SERVANT as] messenger How now? Where's your master?... | |
 | Kenneth S. Rothwell - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 402 pages
...up Shakespeare's gift for articulating the tangled skein of human experience, its daily grubbiness: "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipt them not, and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues" (4.3.71).... | |
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. 
