 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...moral observation, stressing the inevitable mixture in the human makeup of good and bad qualities: 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. (4.3.74-7) It is no accident that this compassionate comment on Bertram is... | |
 | Craig Alan Kridel - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 320 pages
...common. Both are narratives, and both face the challenge of untangling, telling and emplotting a life: 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. (Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, IV. iii. 83) Both require the creation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1998 - 260 pages
...his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. 70 FIRST LORD The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Our virtues would be proud if 42 higher farther (?); compare Merry 50 sanctimony personal holiness Wives 5.5.104, and 2.1.208 above.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 164 pages
...agencies results from the double character of human nature itself: as the younger Dumaine also observes, "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" (IV.3. 70-73). Throughout the play we are confronted with the compound quality... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...post-ibseniana, Helena no se ríe mucho, y por lo tanto no es muy shawiana. Es sin duda formidable, un sí es 5. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipp'd them not, and our crimes would dispair if they were not cherish'd by our virtues. [IV.iii.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...virtue none, It is a dropsied honour. Good alone Is good without a name King — All's Well II.iii 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. First Lord — All's Well IV.iii Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.... | |
 | Suzanne Enoch - Fiction - 2009 - 383 pages
...written beneath it. "Oh, my," she breathed. This was becoming very complicated, indeed. Chapter 15 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. —All's Welt That Ends Well, Act IV. Scene iii Georgiana liked to ride early... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...callous attitude of the conventional code. Such is our study of Bertram. As one of the Lords says : 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. (iv. iii. 83) IV Helena possesses those old-world qualities of simplicity,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2004 - 288 pages
...that his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. Lord G 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. Enter a [SERVANT as] messenger How now? Where's your master? All's Well that... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Drama - 2004 - 198 pages
...First Lord makes this clear in what is a strikingly summary observation in All's Well That Ends Well: 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. (4.3.69-72) The very materiality of a web reveals its simplicity and its... | |
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. 
