 | Thomas Ray Eaton - Bible - 1858 - 212 pages
...dark, To cry, Hold, hold!" Light to Shakespeare suggests the idea of goodo ness : — " How far yon little candle throws its beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." This is the scriptural, not the common comparison ; the latter likens darkness to sorrow,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pages
...well pleased her charmed fancy, and she said to Nerissa, " That light we see is burning in my hall ; how far that little candle throws its beams ! so shines a good deed in a naughty world :" and hearing the sound of music from her house, she said, " Methinks that music sounds... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - Southern States - 1859 - 336 pages
...beautiful coquettes that were ever out-coquetted by their own mirrors ; — yes, real brilliancy. " How far that little candle throws its beams ! So shines a good deed in this naughty world." I am not going to tell a story of charity — a heroic act of a benevolent nature.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...well pleased her charmed fancy, and she said to Nerissa: ' That light we see is burning in my hall; how far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world :' and hearing the sound of music from her house, she said : ' Methinks that music sounds... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 pages
...they emanate until we arc close to it, although we may know what it is, and exclaim with Portia : " How far that little candle throws its beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Unless we are tolerably near we do not even see the shape of- the flame, and 'as Boon... | |
 | Science - 1864 - 540 pages
...they emanate until we are close to it, although we may know what it is, and exclaim with Portia : " How far that little candle throws its beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Unless we are tolerably near we do not even see the shape of the flame, and as soon... | |
 | Selina Ditcher - 1866 - 344 pages
...fall short, or but provoke to rejection. What a beautiful word is that of our great English poet, " How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." And how plainly is this in accordance with the words of Him who spake as never man... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 408 pages
...they emanate until we are close to it, although we may know what it is, and exclaim with Portia, " How far that little candle throws its beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Unless we are tolerably near, we do not even see the shape of the flame ; and as soon... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...well pleased her charmed fancy, and she said to Nerissa, ' That light we see is burning in my hall ; how far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world : ' and hearing the sound of music from her house, she said, ' Methinks that music sounds... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...commendant. — Contrasts mutually set off each other. " Lilies are whitest in a blackamoor's hand." " How far that little candle throws its beams ; So shines a good deed in a naughty world." SHAKS. " Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's... | |
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That light we see is burning in my hall ; how far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world... 
