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" Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done... "
The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes - Page 73
by William Shakespeare - 1789
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations

Geoffrey Parrinder - Quotations, English - 2000 - 389 pages
...one's relatives, blameless actions: that is a supreme blessing. Sutta Nipata, II, 4 (3rd century neE) 7 Time hath, my Lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, III, iii, 145-6 (? 1602) 8 1 give no alms. For that I am...
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Metaphor and Moral Experience

Alison E. Denham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 392 pages
...reconstructing it in simile form. Consider the transformation effected in these lines from Troihis and Cressida: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. When they are rewritten as, Time is, my lord, like someone with a wallet at his back Wherein he puts...
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The Troll Garden: Short Stories

Willa Cather - Fiction - 2000 - 212 pages
...back/ This is an altered version of Ulysses' speech in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida 3.3.145-46: "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion." 17.8 Rolla/ The title character of a poem by Alfred de Musset (1810-57). Rolla lives a life of debauchery,...
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The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War

Tony Vaux, Anthony Vaux - Business & Economics - 2013 - 252 pages
...to get out of his tent and take action, Ulysses used the argument that the past is soon forgotten: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. These scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...Reyes), tal vez la advertencia de Ulises es otra descortés bofetada a Jonson, cuyo deseo de emin. Uliss. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, / A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. /Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd / As fast...
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The Tragedie of Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...Sh.) says: 'A variation of the fable is found in Tro. &• Cress., IlI, iii, 145, where Ulysses says, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion."' But this is again a note on Johnson and not on this passage in Coriolanus. — ED.] one that loues...
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The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life

Nicholas Delbanco - Fiction - 2000 - 242 pages
...no doubt in part—because their teeth were bad. As a character in Troilus and Cressida reminds us, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion." Smile. Recently two of my "masters" have died. I use the word with some particularity; they were my...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...developing the kind of reflective and intellectual style we see in Ulysses' speech to Achilles on Time: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 36

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...which the sequence of images of over-eating, uncurrent coin and beggary anticipate Ulysses' speech 'Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion' (3.3.145-6). Dio remarks that Perseus carried in his wallet the Gorgon's head with which to turn men...
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Cather Studies, Volume 3

Susan J. Rosowski - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 316 pages
...humanity's fickle memory, noting that the public quickly forgets anyone whom it cannot see: "Titne hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, / A great-sized monster of ingratitudes" (3.3.146-47, emphasis added). We cannot determine whether or not...
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