 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...blame ; and a bad man, though not often, may possibly deserve to be commended." — 7>>/ruvi. MCCLXVIL We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. Shakspearc MCCLXVIIL Ceremonies are different in every country ; but true politeness is every where... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...it is far more easy to point out what will do harm, than what will do good. Haft), — Shakspeare. must not make a scarecrow of the Law, Setting it up...Custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. iUatning, — Chesterfield. A MAN of the best parts and greatest Learning, if he does not know the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 pages
...thank you : Commend me to my brother : soon at night I'll send him certain word of my success. Lucio. I take my leave of you. Isab. Good sir, adieu. [Exeunt....the law, Setting it up to fear ' the birds of prey, ll) To owe is to have, to possess, n That is, the abbess. 1 To fear is to affright. VOL. II. 4 And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 784 pages
...time or pot, en them. ACT L] ACT II. SCENE I. — A Hall in Angelo'* Houte. Enter ANGELO, EscALrs, a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants....custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. KM- u.. Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, [man, Than fall, and bruise to death.... | |
 | Henry Moody (curator of the Winchester mus.) - 1863 - 298 pages
...the last will and testament of the said Delpot. CHAPTER XXII. A TRIAL OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. " We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror." SHAKESPEARE'S Measure for Measure. ON the third day of the Assizes Lord Chief Justice Jefferies having... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...kneel, All their petitions are as freely theirs, As they themselves would owe them. — Sc. 5. Angelo. We must not make a scarecrow of the law Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.— Act 2, Sc. 1. Isabella. No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, N"ot the king's crown, nor the deputed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pages
...ANGELO'S House. Enter ANGELO, ESCAMTS, a Justice, Provost, Officers, and otftrr Attendants. Л пд. - AVr,''. Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall, and bruise to death. Alus!... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1866 - 456 pages
...are as figures pure and wellsustained. How clearly is this exemplified in a speech of Angelo's! " Wo must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up...it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch aud not their terror." Act ii. sc. 1. And how forcible and figuratively pure is the following remark:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 188 pages
...beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.—Act I, Sc. 3. Lucio. Our doubts are traitors, Ang. We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. Act 2, Sc. 1. Escal. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall : Some run from brakes of vice, and... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. Pope, Prol. 35. LAW, LAWVEKS— see Patriotism. We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. Bh. M.for M. n. 1. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,... | |
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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. 
