 | 1845 - 786 pàgines
...advantages of light and experience, they might listen with profit to the teaching of our dramatic bard — ' Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.' Art. II. De Poetics Vi Medico. Prxlectiones Academica Oxonii habita, Annis... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 522 pàgines
...fieyopfh» Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues3 Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we...them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues:4 nor nature never lendss The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess,... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 498 pàgines
...Spirits are not jinely touch'd." The hypevmeter might be obviated in this manner — 'Twere all alike, " We had them not ; spirits are not finely touch'd, " But to fine issues; nor nature never lends." This is not a double negative, as Mr. Steevens calls it ; " nor" is the appropriate... | |
 | William Enfield - 1805 - 456 pàgines
...unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to fhape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. HEAVEN doth with us as we with torches do,. Not light them for themfelves: for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pàgines
...and thy belonging Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pàgines
...So sweet and voluble is his discourse. VIRTUE GIVEN to be EXERTED. (SHAKESPEARE.} HEAV'N dotlvwith us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves...Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 382 pàgines
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pàgines
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper ', as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thec. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light...for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth with us, 'twere all alike Asifweh;ulthem not. Spiritsarenotfinelytouch'd, Btit to lino issues* * :... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pàgines
...acknowledge the publick claim to their communications, enforced by the authority of the great moral poet : " Heaven doth with us as we with torches do^ Not light them for themselves." Perhaps the present state of society tends in a peculiar degree to foster general selfishness of character.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pàgines
...unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives-.to airy nothing; A local habile. 'ion and a name, Heaven .doth with us as we with torches do,, , Not...Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, ,. . But, like a thrifty goddess,... | |
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Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. 
