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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... "
Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays,: As They are Now Performed at the ... - Page 209
by William Shakespeare - 1774
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Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature

John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...present instant. As Ulysses tells an Achilles piqued that the glory of his past deeds has been forgotten, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion": For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And with his...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...poet. Satan, in Paradise Lost, bk. 4, 1. 830 (1667). Speaking to "two fair angels." 7 Time hath ... A wallet at his back, wherein he puts Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster Of ingratitudes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Ulysses,...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...10501 Troilus and Cressida To be wise, and love. Exceeds man's might. 10502 Tmilus and Cressida Tune mas 1663-1704 oblivlon, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. 10503 Troilus and Cressida Perseverance, dear my lord,...
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Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge

J. Douglas Kneale - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 250 pages
...Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: the boy has "a huge wallet o'er [his] shoulders slung"; Ulysses says," lime hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion" (3.3.145). Lister further observes that these occurrences of the word "wallet" are the only ones in...
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Language and Gender

Angela Goddard, Lindsey Meân Patterson - Education - 2000 - 132 pages
...traditionally associated with 'Father Time', who is often pictured as stern, authoritarian and inhumane: 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 devoured As fast as...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations

Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 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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Shakespeare on Love and Friendship

Allan Bloom - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 172 pages
...speaks the best poetry in the play in the service of persuading Achilles of this terrible conclusion: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, g8 Troilus and Cressida A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which...
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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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