 | William Shakespeare - 1907 - 266 pàgines
...are we to the gods ; They kill us for their sport. Margaret or Elizabeth could not yet acknowledge that : — The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. Richmond could not yet confess, over the body of his slain adversary : — This shows... | |
 | 1846 - 670 pàgines
...dishonour. The catastrophe, indeed, is more sudden than he expects. In the four following pictures, we see that " The Gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us." VOL. XH. G The tragedy ends with adultery, and murder, and suicide. Hogarth put forth his strength... | |
 | 1851 - 566 pàgines
...and brilliant existence, he felt, in all the poignancy of the bitterest self-accusation and remorse, that " the gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to scourge us." As is clearly shown in his passive non-resistance to the attack of the yonth who, in thus imagining... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pàgines
...profitable they may at the time appear, we shall in the end realise the truth of great Shakspere's words, that — "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us." And in " Eugene Aram's Dream" this truth is preached as with a tongue of fire. We see that when the... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pàgines
...profitable they may at the time appear, we shall in the end realise the truth of great Shakespeare's 'words, that " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.",. And in Palmer's life and death, we have a striking illustration of these truths. For several years... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pàgines
...father's wrongs on one who had so foully betrayed both, has learned nevertheless from that father's fate, that "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us. A strong sense of what Jeremy Taylor calls "the descending and entailed curse" of the sin fills Edmund's... | |
 | mrs. Edward Christian - 1873 - 276 pàgines
...had a long and a stormy life ; and I have been led, through many tortuous windings, to the conviction that — The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us. VOL. III. O I have suffered for the evil I have wrought in this world — I am suffering now, — and... | |
 | International health exhibition, 1884 - 1875 - 486 pàgines
...to the intellect and hurled the reason reeling from its throne, the beholder was fain to acknowledge that the gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.' EDUCATION OF DEAF MUTES. A VIENNA correspondent writes that an opportunity was recently... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 306 pàgines
...nurse silencing the thought of God and of repentance, in the misery that taught Gloucester all too late that " The Gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us." King Lear, v. 3. The temper that remains unmoved "fully set to do evil, because sentence against an... | |
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us: The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes. 
