 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 pages
...thy virtues, they on thee. 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...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like... | |
 | Robert B. Bennett - 2000 - 204 pages
...intentional, divine force: 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. Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like a thrifty goddess, she determines... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1999 - 603 pages
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 | Mike Sanders - 2001 - 632 pages
...December 1839, pp. 948-9. "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...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues: nor nature never tends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess,... | |
 | John Hutchinson - 2001 - 328 pages
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 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 pages
...thy virtues, they on thee. 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. (1.1.29-35) Living comfortably insulated in his citadel while relying upon his subordinates, the Duke... | |
 | Charles Clotfelter, Thomas Ehrlich - 2001 - 580 pages
...better than anyone else: 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.6 As an aside, one cannot help but be amused by the fact that the US Department of Commerce, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 632 pages
...application appears to have been noticed, though there is another echoing allusion to it in Sh. himself: "... if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not" (Measure for Measure, i.1.34-36). The phraseology in this passage echoes several passages concerning... | |
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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. 
