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" They say, miracles are past; and we -have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves... "
The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George ... - Page 132
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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Understanding Understanding

Richard Mason - Philosophy - 2003 - 152 pages
...fallacy. Only a narrowing of understanding to linguistic understanding leads to these traps. Lafew: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. Parolles: Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our latter times. 20 It is...
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All's Well that Ends Well: All's Well, that Ends Well : the First Folio of ...

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2004 - 288 pages
...Haste you again. Exeunt [2.3] Lafew Enter Count BERTRAM, LAFEW [with a news-sheet], and PAROLLES 3? They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. All's Well that ends Well 55 more, a hundred of them. La. Sir I am a poore freind of yours, that loues...
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Cavell on Film

Stanley Cavell - Social Science - 2005 - 432 pages
...lengths to answer, in conjunction with the question why television is (also) repellent. 12 Prenom: Marie They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical...when we should submit ourselves, to an unknown fear. —Shakespeare, Alls Well That Ends Well AT THAT TIME I WAS GLAD FOR the invitation to prepare an introducf\...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 260 pages
...juxtaposed a reflection by Lafew, the wise old nobleman of All's Well That Ends Well, with Macbeth: Lafew They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. [2.3.1-6] Wilbur Sanders, acknowledging Wilson Knight, explores Macbeth as the Shakespearean play where...
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Culture and Authority in the Baroque

Massimo Ciavolella, Patrick Coleman, Professor of French Patrick Coleman - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 265 pages
...Well That Ends Well, the old courtier Lafew advocates caution in dismissing wonders from the world: 'They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.'39 Indeed, Lafew's scepticism towards the power of reason allows him to sustain the wonder necessary...
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All's Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Drama - 2011 - 340 pages
...licensed 21. in showing: ie, narrated (continued) Enter Count r Bertram? Lafew, and Parottes. LAFEW They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should 5 submit ourselves to an unknown fear. PAROLLES Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot...
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Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama ...

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 238 pages
...miracles, which he sees as inappropriate in the face of such marvels as the king's restoration to health: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. (2.3.1-6) In the light of Lafeu's words, it is relevant that the French king should describe Helens...
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Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith

John D. Cox - Drama - 2007 - 368 pages
...be what it is without those conversations. 1 SKEPTICISM AND SUSPICION IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. All's Well That Ends Well, 2.3.1-6 SKEPTICISM The reception of skepticism in the sixteenth century...
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Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson - History - 2007 - 270 pages
...lamenting things lost, is instructive and may be considered the true center of gravity in the play: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves with seeming knowledge, when we should submit to an unknown fear (2.3. 1-6). The juxtaposition of the...
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