 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...hangs the cozener. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice...hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able 'em :4 Take that of me, my friend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...hangs the cozener. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold. And the strong lance of justice...hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able 'em :* Take that of me, my friend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pages
...cozener. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sm with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 866 pages
...down thy climbing sorrow, Thy elements below. Read, thou climbing sorrow, &c. P. 434. Lear. plate sins with gold, And the strong lance of Justice hurtless breaks , Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw will pierce it. Read, plate sin, &c. P. 445. And we '11 wear out In a wall'd prison packs and sects... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...obeyed in office. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice...hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I 'l1 able 'em : Take that of me, my friend,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 332 pages
...propriety and elegance: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks} Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doih pierce it. We are moved to find that Lear has some faint knowledge of his old and faithful courtier.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...cozener. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and lurr'd gowus, hide all. Plale sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 512 pages
...cozener. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all9. Plate sin1 with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able em 2 : Take that of me, my friend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...thought that the author wrote plated: — cunning superinduced, thinly spread over. So, in this play : " Plate sin with gold, " And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks." But the word unfold, and the following lines in our author's Rape of Lucrece, show, that plaited, or... | |
 | 1826 - 372 pages
...statutes ; but in 1716, Louis XV. substituted pecuniary mulcts. Well may we exclaim with the poet, " Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks ; Clothe it in rags, and a paltry straw will pierce it." THE PUNISHMENT OF QUARTERING. If reasons of... | |
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Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks: Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. 
