| William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...thy virtues, them on theeHeaven doth with us, as we with torehes 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. Spirits are uot finely touch 'd, But to fine issues: nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence,... | |
| Thomas Henry Lister - 1828 - 288 pages
...homeward. CHAPTER XI. Heaven doth with us, as we wi'h torches do, Not light them for themselves: fop if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Measure for Measure. IP Lacy's homeward journey was under a dull, unvarying sky, and through an uninteresting... | |
| Thomas Henry Lister - 1828 - 326 pages
...morning before Agnes had appeared at the breakfast-table, Lacy was on his road homeward. CHAPTER XI. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go foith of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Measure... | |
| Carol Ochs - Philosophy - 1997 - 206 pages
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 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.13 Beyond... | |
| David Boucher - History - 1997 - 364 pages
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. 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. Spirits... | |
| Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...argument won't stand up against the principle the Duke himself had enunciated early in the play: since "heaven doth with us as we with torches do, / Not light them for themselves" alone, it follows that "if our virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike/ As if... | |
| Gillian Murray Kendall - Drama - 1998 - 232 pages
...remarks make the practices of heaven in this regard seem suspiciously congruent with those of nature: 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. Spirits... | |
| Robert B. Bennett - Drama - 2000 - 204 pages
...nature of Nature, speaking of her in personified terms, as a cognitive, intentional, divine force: 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. Nature... | |
| Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 pages
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 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. Spirits... | |
| Charles Clotfelter, Thomas Ehrlich - Business & Economics - 2001 - 580 pages
...better than anyone else: 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.6 As an aside, one cannot help but be amused by the fact that the US Department of Commerce, in... | |
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