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" That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit,... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 119
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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The Philosophy of Shakspere: Extracted from His Plays

William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious...to dust, that is a little gilt, More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object. Trollus and Cressida. Act iii. Scene 3. ITS...
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Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare - 1841 - 398 pages
...Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious...kin, — That all, with one consent, praise new-born gauds,1 Though they are made and moulded of things past ; And give to dust, that is a little gilt,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 53

American essays - 1884 - 1022 pages
...that all men are akin, and that this trait is, "That all, with one consent, praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And...to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted." He introduces this by saying, — "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," —...
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Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...Time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin That all with one consent praise new-born gauds. Though they are made and moulded of things past. And...to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object: 180 Then marvel not. thou great and complete...
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Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy

Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...concomitant of order) are concerned: . . . beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious...to dust, that is a little gilt, More laud than gilt o'erdusted. [III.iii. 171-79] When that effort fails, Ulysses taunts Achilles with his presumably foolish...
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Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic

Mihoko Suzuki - Authority in literature - 1989 - 292 pages
...in the play, Ulysses warns Achilles that beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious...kin — That all with one consent praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...smiles, Remuneration for the thing it was. For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious...to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object. Then marvel not, thou great and complete man,...
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Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature

John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious...to dust, that is a little gilt, More laud than gilt o'erdusted. The present eye praises the present object. (3.3.165-80) In a similar vein, Agamemnon dismisses...
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Shakespeare in the Theatre

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...their sources, even without invoking Ulysses' ironical analysis in Troilus and Cressida: One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. That all with...to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object. . . . (3.3.175-80) Perhaps there never was...
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Landmarks in English Literature

Philip Gaskell - Canon (Literature) - 1999 - 188 pages
...thing it was; For beaut), wit. High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charm, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time....world kin That all with one consent praise new-born gauds. Though thev are made and moulded of things past. And give to dust that is a little gilt More...
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