 | Annette Drew-Bear - 1994 - 158 pàgines
...villain with the "white devil"—as in the lines: "And thus I clothe my naked villainy / With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ, / And seem a saint, when most 1 play the devil." 15 Richard's words about the executed "traitor" Hastings apply most aptly to Richard... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pàgines
...duke my brother. Now, they believe it; and withal whet me To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: t I see be J 3 villainy With old odd ends stoln out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. —... | |
 | Jonathan Locke Hart - 1996 - 304 pàgines
...pride in deception. he covers up by quoting scripture: And thus 1 clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ. And seem a saint. when most 1 play the deviL (Liii.335-37) Of course he overshoots the saintly mark. Lessing would write him off... | |
 | Stanley Vincent Longman - 1997 - 148 pàgines
...the Duke my brother. Now they believe it, and withal whet me To be revenged on Rivers, Dorset, Grey, But then I sigh and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell...bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil.... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - 1998 - 228 pàgines
...devilish delight of his machinations: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stolen forth of Holy Writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. (1.iii.335-7) and: And by that knot looks proudly on the crown, To her go I, a jolly thriving wooer.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 244 pàgines
...scripture Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. 335 And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. Enter two MURDERERS But soft, here come my executioners How now, my hardy, stout, resolved mates, .uo... | |
 | Harry Levin - 2000 - 170 pàgines
...pride in deception, he covers up by quoting scripture: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. (I iii 335-7) Of course he overshoots the saintly mark. Lessing would write him off as unabashedly... | |
 | Tim Spiekerman - 2001 - 222 pàgines
...expression of the moral hypocrisy Machiavelli recommends: "And thus I clothe my naked villainy/With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ, / And seem a saint, when most 1 play the devil" (RIII I.iii.336-38). Does Shakespeare go this far with Machiavelli? Does he reject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pàgines
...duke my brother. Now, they believe it; and withal whet me To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: the lord mayor craves aid of your honour from the...city from the rebels. LORD SCALES. Such aid as I villainy With old odd ends stoln out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. —... | |
 | Iván Nyusztay - 2002 - 210 pàgines
...pretence: Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ. And seem a saint, when most I play the devil (Richard the Third, I.iii.335-38) Seeming is part of a scheme of destruction, in the shaping of which... | |
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But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil : And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. 
