 Isabel, Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me : Hold up your hands, say nothing, I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.  Shakspeare's Measure for Measure: A Comedy - Page 65by William Shakespeare - 1803 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...is better life, past fearing death, Than that which lives to fear. 23. They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. 24. He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me. Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all. They say most men are moulded out of faults. And for the most, become...better For being a little bad; so may my husband. (Vi417;426;437-41) Mariana's unconditional forgiveness here of the man who has shamed her cracks the... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 pages
...in the process of learning about existence as they leave us: Mariana: They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more...better For being a little bad. So may my husband. (5.1.444-46) Death, as Sir Charles Mountford has said, is the end of all calamity; but in the words... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1991 - 234 pages
...compares AWW 4.3.72-3: 'Our having power of disposal of them. virtues would be proud if our faults whipped And for the most become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband. Oh Isabel! Will you not lend a knee? 435 DUKE He dies for Claudio's death. ISABELLA [Kneeling] Most... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - 1995 - 304 pages
...we have seen of Angelo's corruption, after all, Mariana's argument for leniency on the grounds that "best men are moulded out of faults, / And for the...better / For being a little bad; so may my husband" (5.1.439-41) seems to lean very heavily on "a little bad" and "may." In any case, by forcing Angelo... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 pages
...we are moved to think how much love and wisdom such an apparently trivial generalization conceals: They say best men are moulded out of faults, And,...become much more the better For being a little bad. v, ยป,437-9 As in Bertram's 'O pardon!', Shakespeare is bent on avoiding explosion of speech, a call... | |
 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - 1995 - 332 pages
...of Angelo in the last scene can also be said of Isabella and the Duke: They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. (5.1.444-46) I do not mean to suggest that Shakespeare takes the part of the alehouse society against... | |
 | Edward M. Hallowell - 1997 - 292 pages
...Practice. Guilford Press, New York, 1986. Afterword When No One Is to Blame They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. William Shakespeare, Measure far Measure If I could make a plea to my fellow parents out there it would... | |
 | Lawrence J. Ross - 1997 - 194 pages
...Mariana. Isabel! Sweet Isabel do yet but kneel by me; Hold up your hands, say nothing: I'll speak all. They say best men are moulded out of faults, And,...may my husband. O Isabel! Will you not lend a knee? (431-40) Here surely may be found reference to "the fortunate fall" that allegorically minded critics... | |
 | Viscountess Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb Melbourne - 1998 - 514 pages
...encouraging the earl of Roseberry 's wife to elope with him and thus compromise her reputation. 174. "They say, best men are moulded out of faults: / And,...become much more the better, / For being a little bad" (Mariana, Measure for Measure 5:1:444). 175. Emily Cowper. 176. Lady Caroline Lamb ILLUSTRATIONS 205... | |
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