Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks ; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. The Plays - Página 369por William Shakespeare - 1824Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 páginas
...her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Through tattered clothes small vice» do appear: Robes and furred and the night ; By all the operations of the orbs...paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, : I '11 able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 páginas
...more than thou desir'st. MV iv.l. And where the offence is, let the great axe fall. H. iv. 5. llobes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And...: Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. KL iv. 6. In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice ; And... | |
| Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 páginas
...And the oftener they stop, the wealthier they get. If they were poor, the law might notice them. " Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice...; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it." This surely is the reason — there can be no other — why every great community embraces more or... | |
| Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 434 páginas
...And the oftener they stop, the wealthier they get. If they were poor, the law might notice them. " Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice...breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it." This surely is the reason — there can be no other — why every great community embraces more or... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 páginas
...office. (1) Only. (2) Possess. (3) Look asquint Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand : Why dost thon lash that whore : Strip thine own back ; Thou hotly...pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none, 1 say, none; I'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 páginas
...the creature run from the cur ? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority : a dog 's obeyed in office. — Thou rascal beadle, hold thy...doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none ; I 'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee... | |
| 1856 - 372 páginas
...falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity. — Dry den. MCLVIIL Fhe usurer hangs the cozener. Through tatter'd clothes...lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy straw doth pierce it. Shakspeare. MCLIX. None has more frequent conversations with disagreeable... | |
| John Timbs - 1856 - 374 páginas
...falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity. — Dry den. MCLVIII. Die usurer hangs the cozener. Through tatter'd clothes...lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy straw doth pierce it. Shukspeare. MCLIX. None has more frequent conversations with disagreeable... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 páginas
...too often the measure of morality. Shakspere had an eye to this when he said — " Through tattered clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns...; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it." Sydney Smith has said, " It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less... | |
| 1857 - 434 páginas
...thou might'st behold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office. * * * Through tattered clothes small vices do appear, robes and furr'd gowns...; arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. * * If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. I know thee well enough ; thy name is Gloster. Thou... | |
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