...control. They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved,...Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flow'r with base...

...1952], 1612): They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved,...slow — They rightly do inherit Heaven's graces. . . . 18 We know that Thomas read George Steiner's work closely (see, eg, his Autobiographies 161,...

...evasion of the central issue about egotism. — William Empson (on Shakespeare's summer flower, which "is to the summer sweet, /Though to itself, it only live and die") I have been in the habit of describing this book as a study of novels and poems in which "nothing happens,"...

...without goddesses and without gods, without much love or much dread. And I believe I recognize them, too. Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow. . . . Yes, they are the ones, they are the Lords and owners of their faces. And, I believe, it really...

...safer. They that have the pow'r to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved,...temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven's graces . . . -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 94 Gender Equality between men and women has been a great obstacle...