 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 352 pages
...observer, doth thy history Fully unfold : thyself and thy belongings * Are not thine own so proper f, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee....alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues J : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. ACT I. VIRTUE GIVEN TO BE EXERTED. HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues*: nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...starv'd, and ravenous. There's ne'er a villain, dwelling in all Denmark, But he's an arrant knave. VIRTUE. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Forgive me this my virtue : For, in the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...observer, doth tliy history Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, it we had them not. Spiritsare not finely tonch'i]. Bat to fine issues : nor nature never lends The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...the observer doth thy history Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper5, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee....alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues6: nor nature never lends7 The smallest scruple of her excellence, 5 So... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...observer, doth thy history Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings * Are not thine own so proper6, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee....alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues 7 : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1826 - 996 pages
...the observer, doth thy history Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, bad them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...bestows blind gifts, that still have nursl, They sec not who, nor how, but utill the worst. MCCXXXVT. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues: nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 pages
...observer, doth thy historyd Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee....alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues :e nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pages
...frivolous ground to be satisfactorily maintained. In the play of "Measure for Measure" there occurs — f Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...alike As if we had them not ; spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues. — ACT I. SCENE 1. The poet here manifestly alludes to the passage in... | |
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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. 
