 | Ebenezer Bailey - Readers - 1841 - 416 pages
...one half so good a grace, As mercy does. Tf he had been as you, And you as he, you would have slipt like him; But he, like you, would not have been so...words Isab. Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that are, were forfeit once : And He, that might the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy. How... | |
 | 1841 - 744 pages
...immediately pointed oat the following terse, but transcendant passage from ' Measure for Measure.' ' Why. all the souls that were, were forfeit once ;...the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy.' It would pass the bounds of the most exalted eulogy to record the prelate's answer, and how deeply... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1841 - 710 pages
...*** the following terse, but transcendant passage from " Measure for Measure." " Why, all the touls that were, were forfeit once ; And HE that might the Vantage best have took, Found out the remedy." It would pass the bounds of the most exalted eulogy to record the prelate's answer, *™ how deeply... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pages
...what 'twere to be a judge, And what a prisoner. Lutio. \.Aside.\ Ay, touch him ; there's the vein. Ang. Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you...alas ! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once ; 1 May call it BACK again :] The word bacls was inserted by the editor of the folio of 1632 ; and,... | |
 | George Daniel - England - 1842 - 320 pages
...immediately pointed out the following terse, but transcendant passage from " Measure for Measure." " Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ;...the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy." It would pass the bounds of the most exalted eulogy to record the prelate's answer, and how deeply... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...'twere to be a judge, And what a prisoner. Ang. Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waote your words. Isab. Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls...took, Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, who is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are 1 O, think on that ; And mercy then will... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - Bible - 1843 - 264 pages
...7. This look of thine will hurl my soul from Heaven, And fiends will snatch at it ! OTHELLO, v. 2. All the souls that were, -were forfeit once : And...the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2. SPARROW. I will buy nine sparrows for a penny, and his "pia mater is not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...tell what 'twere to be a judge, And what a prisoner. Lucio. Ay, touch him: there 's the vein. [Aside. Ang. Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you...waste your words. Isab. Alas, alas ! Why, all the soula that were, were forfeit once ; And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy... | |
 | 1904 - 926 pages
...visible Makes the Creator unto every creature, Let us set beside these such passages as Shakespeare's — Alas, alas! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit...might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy; ! or Shelley's— Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity; I... | |
 | 1878 - 892 pages
...in words, and deeds, and sufferings, which at length culminated in the atoning death of the cross. " All the souls that were were forfeit once ; And He...might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. " Moved by intense sympathy with men, His life of omnipotence became the life of sacrifice. " He was... | |
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Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And he that might the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : how would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you, as you are? 
