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The Plays - Page 369
by William Shakespeare - 1824
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 167, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Through tattered clothes small vice» do appear: Robes and furred and the night ; By all the operations of the orbs...paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, : I '11 able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...more than thou desir'st. MV iv.l. And where the offence is, let the great axe fall. H. iv. 5. llobes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And...: Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. KL iv. 6. In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice ; And...
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The Bible in the Counting-house: A Course of Lectures to Merchants

Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 pages
...And the oftener they stop, the wealthier they get. If they were poor, the law might notice them. " Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice...; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it." This surely is the reason — there can be no other — why every great community embraces more or...
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The Bible in the Counting-house: A Course of Lectures to Merchants

Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 434 pages
...And the oftener they stop, the wealthier they get. If they were poor, the law might notice them. " Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice...breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it." This surely is the reason — there can be no other — why every great community embraces more or...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...office. (1) Only. (2) Possess. (3) Look asquint Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand : Why dost thon lash that whore : Strip thine own back ; Thou hotly...pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, 1 say, none; I'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips....
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The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight, Volumes 17-22

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...the creature run from the cur ? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority : a dog 's obeyed in office. — Thou rascal beadle, hold thy...doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none ; I 'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

1856 - 372 pages
...falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity. — Dry den. MCLVIIL Fhe usurer hangs the cozener. Through tatter'd clothes...lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy straw doth pierce it. Shakspeare. MCLIX. None has more frequent conversations with disagreeable...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity. — Dry den. MCLVIII. Die usurer hangs the cozener. Through tatter'd clothes...lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy straw doth pierce it. Shukspeare. MCLIX. None has more frequent conversations with disagreeable...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 1-3

Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...too often the measure of morality. Shakspere had an eye to this when he said — " Through tattered clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns...; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it." Sydney Smith has said, " It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less...
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The Bombay Quarterly Review, Volume 5

1857 - 434 pages
...thou might'st behold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office. * * * Through tattered clothes small vices do appear, robes and furr'd gowns...; arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. * * If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. I know thee well enough ; thy name is Gloster. Thou...
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