 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a freehold of a better value. — Fuller. 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. — SJiakspeare. LIFE. — Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pàgines
...for I think the bigness disgusted him; although I have seen one larger in Greenland. — Swift. 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.— All's Well that Ends Well. DESIRES. How ridiculous a play would be of... | |
 | Henry Fishwick - 1912 - 428 pàgines
...one." 2 He is sensible that differences between good men and others are apt to be exaggerated ; that " 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" ;3 that " virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that... | |
 | Herbert Baring Garrod - 1913 - 422 pàgines
...from life, Dante is as he had become between her death and " the middle of the journey of our 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." So said one who was as great as Dante ; Dante must have felt the truth of... | |
 | Frederick Rogers - 1913 - 364 pàgines
...with a new and abounding life. Eternally true are the words of the greatest of all the Elizabethans, " The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would bid us despair if they were not cherished by our virtues." XXIX "IN THE MIDST 0' THE BIGNESS 0' THINGS"... | |
 | Arthur Acheson, Edward Thurlow Leeds - 1922 - 714 pàgines
...that his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. FIRST LORD. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good...not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. For the basis of this play, Shakespeare used the story of Gilletta of Narbonne,... | |
 | jesse w. weik - 1922 - 414 pàgines
...that Washington had more: few men less." It was the bard of Avon who makes one of his characters say: 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. This sapient reflection can most fittingly be applied to Lincoln. True his... | |
 | Jesse William Weik - 1922 - 408 pàgines
...that Washington had more: few men less." It was the bard of Avon who makes one of his characters say: 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. This sapient reflection can most fittingly be applied to Lincoln. True his... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 462 pàgines
...wisdom waiting on the surviving or superfluous folly of the original Play as when the First Lord says, " 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," and " Now, God delay our rebellion ! as we are ourselves, what things we... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1924 - 880 pàgines
...his comment: "How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses." And this is most excellent: "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." I like the temper of that extremely — and does it not reveal the man ?... | |
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Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from point, to the full arming of the verity. 2 LoRD. I am heartily sorry, that he'll be glad of this. 1 LoRD. How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our losses ! 2 LoRD. And how mightily, some other... 
