 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1993 - 108 pages
...ourselves and our nature. In All's Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare says, 'the web of our lives is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Our virtues...faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.' Again, it seemed obvious to me that if this was one of... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 220 pages
...nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself. 1v, iii, 18-24 And later in the same scene: FIRST LORD. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good...together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipp'd them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish'd by our virtues. 1v, iii,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...moral observation, stressing the inevitable mixture in the human makeup of good and bad qualities: 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. (4.3.74-7) It is no accident that this compassionate comment... | |
 | Craig Alan Kridel - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 320 pages
...common. Both are narratives, and both face the challenge of untangling, telling and emplotting a life: 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. (Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, IV. iii. 83) Both... | |
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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. 
