 | 1893 - 846 ページ
...on romance are prone to forget how truly speaks the nameless lord in " All's Well that Ends Well:" "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues." The fact is that, minutely as novelists affect to paint character, there... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 560 ページ
...confident, and more easily moved by admonition. drown our gain in tears! The great dignity that his valor hath here acquired for him, shall at home be encountered...not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.-— Enter a Servant. How now ? where's your master ? Serv. He met the duke... | |
 | 564 ページ
...will this act be at an end?" asked Talleyrand. The web of our life is like a mingled yarn, good and Ш together; our virtues would be proud, if our faults...not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cheriihed by our virtues. No man can tell bat he that loves his children, how many delicions accents... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 244 ページ
...First Lord in act 4, in which moral categories are presented in irascible- concupiscible phrasing: 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipp'd them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish' d by our virtues' (4.3.68-71).... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - 1993 - 108 ページ
...ourselves and our nature. In All's Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare says, 'the web of our lives is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Our virtues...not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.' Again, it seemed obvious to me that if this was one of the central tenets... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 ページ
...nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself. 1v, iii, 18-24 And later in the same scene: FIRST LORD. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good...together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipp'd them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish'd by our virtues. 1v, iii,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 ページ
...moral observation, stressing the inevitable mixture in the human makeup of good and bad qualities: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. (4.3.74-7) It is no accident that this compassionate comment on Bertram is... | |
 | Craig Alan Kridel - 1998 - 320 ページ
...common. Both are narratives, and both face the challenge of untangling, telling and emplotting a life: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. (Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, IV. iii. 83) Both require the creation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 260 ページ
...his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. 70 FIRST LORD The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Our virtues would be proud if 42 higher farther (?); compare Merry 50 sanctimony personal holiness Wives 5.5.104, and 2.1.208 above.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 164 ページ
...agencies results from the double character of human nature itself: as the younger Dumaine also observes, "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues" (IV.3. 70-73). Throughout the play we are confronted with the compound quality... | |
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. 
