| Noah Webster - Readers - 1835 - 270 pages
...twenty to follow my own teaching. Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues we write in water. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we... | |
| Old Sailor - Seafaring life - 1835 - 216 pages
...Volumes, 12mo. THE STAF F-0 FFICE R. OR, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. A TALE OF REAL LIFE. " The web of life i> of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues...not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues." BT OLIVER MOORE. " W<! are prepared to admit that our extracts do not do... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...confident, and more easily moved by admonition. drown our gain in tears ! The great dignity that his valor hath here acquired for him, shall at home be encountered...not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. — Enter a Servant. How now ? where's your master ? Serv. He met the duke... | |
| Horace Smith - 1836 - 426 pages
...and soul retain their alliance, their joint offspring will ever bear a likeness to either parent. " The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by onr virtues." To begin with the latter; — what we call patriotism, is often a blind... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...other times, wo drown our gain in tears! The great dignity, that li- valour hath here acquired for mm, speare( DO proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cheriehM by... | |
| Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 326 pages
...and soul retain their alliance, their joint offspring will ever bear a likeness to either parent. " The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped tli em not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues." To begin with... | |
| 1837 - 352 pages
...severe, that it consecrates to eternity or consigns to infamy. — Roger Coke. 765. Life Chequered. — The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. — Shakspeare. 766. Physic is of little use to a temperate person; for a... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...Lord. And how mightily, some other times, we drown our gain in tears ! The great dignity, that his his han 1 oar faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues.... | |
| Fashion - 456 pages
...temperament. What is more true, or more justly descriptive of human nature, than this passage of Shakspeare? " The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues." The marked anxiety of Francisco produced a similar sensation in the bosom... | |
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