| William Jerdan - 1852 - 326 pągines
...unfailing esteem- and regard of " Your sincere friend, "A. WALE PEMBERTON." CHAPTER XVII. THE CRIMINAL. Alas ! alas ! Why all the souls that were, were forfeit...the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? Oh think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. — SHAKSPERE.... | |
| Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 112 pągines
...merciful, as your Father who is in Heaven, is merciful." 2 Alas! Alas! Why all the souls that are, were forfeit once; And He that might the Vantage best...mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man new-made.—Measure for Measure, ii. 2. Tho' justice be thy plea, consider this:— That in the course... | |
| 1925 - 352 pągines
...receite for souldiers of many nations ' (Bk. i. 63). Measure for Measure. Isabella's words to Angelo, ' How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment,...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made,' (n. ii. 75-79-) have led to considerable conflict of opinions as to the meaning of the last... | |
| Russ McDonald - 1994 - 324 pągines
...her at her task, and gradually her language warms and reveals her intellectual power and subtlety: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (73-79) The meter here is not much less regular than before, but Isabella's speeches now pour... | |
| Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 pągines
...the one most often heard in Shakespeare's plays — which in itself tells us much about him: . . . . Alas, Alas; Why, all the souls that were were forfeit...top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? (2.2.72) Or, as Hamlet at about the same time was putting it in bis play: "Use every man after his... | |
| Oliver O'Donovan - 1996 - 324 pągines
...But if that pure judgment were set loose among us, all would be destroyed, judge and judged alike. 'How would you be / If he which is the top of judgment...then will breathe within your lips / Like man new made!' (Measure 11.2). We should, therefore, not invoke it. But this does not mean there is no place... | |
| Richard Lischer - 2002 - 500 pągines
...calls upon the hypocritical judge Angelo to see his life anew in light of God's judgment and grace: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. Isabella resists the oppressor by applying a hermeneutic of suspicion to his pose of righteousness... | |
| Ellen F. Davis, Richard B. Hays - 2003 - 368 pągines
...transformation that occurs when we consider our own judgments before God's . . . How would you be, If He, which the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are?...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.2 So, knowing that we are to be judged, we should cut one another some slack. This, I suppose,... | |
| Oliver O'Donovan - 2003 - 154 pągines
...justice to its limits, and, if he did, as Shakespeare asks us, How would you be If He, which is the tops of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O think...mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man new made. 1 And that is a lesson which must govern any project for extending the administration of law... | |
| N. T. Wright - 2004 - 244 pągines
...himself is impartial, and that he too may find himself in need of the mercy which God provided in Christ: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. Measure for Measure Act 2, Scene 2 Angelo refuses: Claudio must die. But at the same time Angelo... | |
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