 | Anna Brownell Jameson, Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1858 - 314 pàgines
...cloister. The philosophical Duke observes in the very first scene — . Spirits are not finely touched, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest...determines, Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.1 This profound and beautiful sentiment is illustrated in the character and destiny of Isabella.... | |
 | 1891 - 382 pàgines
...virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched, But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest...Herself the glory of a creditor. Both thanks and use." Heartily glad are all the instructors in this School that the torches here lighted have not been lighted... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pàgines
...him but also her independence from him. It means recognizing that language is like Nature in that she never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. (Measure for Measure, 1.1.37-41) The trouble with lyric celibacy is that it fails to acknowledge that... | |
 | 1862 - 48 pàgines
...justly receive censure for time misspent and thoughts thrown away. As grand Will Shakspeare has it,— " Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence,...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use." It is well written of the hours, on the old sun-dial at Oxford, " Pereunt et Imputantur." sw D. THE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 148 pàgines
...of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues;3 nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her...determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.4 But I do bend my speech 40 To one that can my part in him advertise. Hold, therefore, Angelo:5... | |
 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - 1995 - 332 pàgines
...18. This theme is perhaps most articulately expressed in the opening scene of Measure for Measure: Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence,...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. (1.1.36-40) Inescapably, we are reminded of the charged significance of the parable of the talents... | |
 | Gillian Murray Kendall - 1998 - 232 pàgines
...remarks make the practices of heaven in this regard seem suspiciously congruent with those of nature: Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. (1.1.32-40) "Thanks, but no thanks," might be the reply of the heroic actor cast as a mere torchbearer.... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 pàgines
...virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest...glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. But I do spend my speech To one that can my part in him advertise. Hold therefore, Angelo: (Removes his Judge's... | |
 | Robert B. Bennett - 2000 - 204 pàgines
...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,...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. (1.1.32-40)'7 This cosmos is in a dynamic state of becoming; and in it humans are called to be productive... | |
 | A. G. Harmon - 2004 - 212 pàgines
...belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. (1.1.29-31) and Nature never lends the smallest scruple of her excellence...Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. (1.1.36-40) Here, Angelo resembles the young man of the first sonnets, whom the poet scolds for refusing... | |
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That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues... 
