 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 頁
...note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. ACT I. VIRTUE GIVEN TO BE EXERTED. HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues * Cool. t Wild apples, •;*•; Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 頁
...fail ; and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew them how we will. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves : for if qur virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere ;ill alike As if we had them not. Spirits arc not finely... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 頁
...argument won't stand up against the principle the Duke himself had enunciated early in the play: since "heaven doth with us as we with torches do, / Not light them for themselves" alone, it follows that "if our virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike/ As if we had them... | |
 | Gillian Murray Kendall - 1998 - 232 頁
...remarks make the practices of heaven in this regard seem suspiciously congruent with those of nature: Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like... | |
 | Robert B. Bennett - 2000 - 204 頁
...nature of Nature, speaking of her in personified terms, as a cognitive, intentional, divine force: Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like a thrifty goddess, she determines... | |
 | Mike Sanders - 2001 - 632 頁
...315 69 The Moral Virtues [Catherine Bariuby] from The New Moral World, 14 December 1839, pp. 948-9. "Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues: nor nature never tends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 頁
...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. (1.1.29-35) Living comfortably insulated in his citadel while relying upon his subordinates, the Duke... | |
 | Charles Clotfelter, Thomas Ehrlich - 2001 - 580 頁
...giver's, benefit. 1n Measure for Measure, Shakespeare has Duke Vincentio say it better than anyone else: Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...go forth of us. 'Twere all alike As if we had them not.6 As an aside, one cannot help but be amused by the fact that the US Department of Commerce, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 632 頁
...application appears to have been noticed, though there is another echoing allusion to it in Sh. himself: "... if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not" (Measure for Measure, i.1.34-36). The phraseology in this passage echoes several passages concerning... | |
 | George Thaddeus Wright - 2001 - 348 頁
...system. As logical thought is built on assumptions from which consequences may be deduced or inferred ("If our virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike / As if we had them not"—1.1.34-36), so the law's language is built on supposes, on //"-clauses that suppose certain... | |
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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. 
