 | 1806 - 408 Seiten
...So sweet and voluble is his discourse. VIRTUE GIVEN to be EXERTED. (SHAKESPEARE.} HEAV'N dotlvwith us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves...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 - 1807 - 382 Seiten
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. 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, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 Seiten
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper ', as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thec. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth with us, 'twere all alike Asifweh;ulthem not. Spiritsarenotfinelytouch'd, Btit to lino issues* * :... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 Seiten
...acknowledge the publick claim to their communications, enforced by the authority of the great moral poet : " Heaven doth with us as we with torches do^ Not light them for themselves." Perhaps the present state of society tends in a peculiar degree to foster general selfishness of character.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 Seiten
...unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives-.to airy nothing; A local habile. 'ion and a name, Heaven .doth with us as we with torches do,, , Not...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 Seiten
...pleasure. Duke. Angelo, Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. 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,... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 Seiten
...belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. fieav'n doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did net go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them hot. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 454 Seiten
...and thy belongings* Are not thine own so propert, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues I>id not go forth of us, 'twere aH alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched, But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 460 Seiten
...and thy belongings* Are not thine own so propert, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtnes, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtnes Did noi go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely tonch'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 Seiten
...and thy belongings5 Are not thine own so proper,6 as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtue* Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd,... | |
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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. 
