 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 552 pages
...Isabel! should it then be thus? No ; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge, And what a prisoner. Angelo. Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. Isabella. Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1908 - 1058 pages
...were nailed, For our advantage, to the bitter cross ; The other is in the plea of Isabella to Angelo : Why. all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. This, it may be said, is only in character for a sister of a religious order, but I doubt if Shakspeare... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt - 690 pages
...thing, the one for, the other against. That in favour is in Measure for Measure, Act. 2. sc. ii. "hub. Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit...the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy." That against is in Twelfth Night, Act 3. sc. ii. — "Maria. For there is no Christian that means to... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 pages
...the one for, the other against ; that in favour is in Measure for Measure, Act. ii. Scene 2. Itab. " Alas, alas ! Why all the souls that were, were forfeit...the Vantage best have took, Found out the remedy. That against is in " Twelfth Night," Act. iii. Scene 2. Maria. " For there is no Christian that means... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 168 pages
...graded steps, as it were, the dialogue comes to the greatest of all examples of substitution for others: Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, And...might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. . . (n, ii, 73-0 It is all splendid talk of the necessity of loving and feeling for one's neighbour... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...heavenly "remedies" were compared: Isabella: Must he needs die? Angelo: Maiden, no remedy. Angelo: Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. Isabella: Alas, alas! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And He that might the vantage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Chastity - 1995 - 148 pages
...there's the vein. ANGELO Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. ISABELLA Alas, alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit...once; And He that might the vantage best have took 80 Found out the remedy. How would you be If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 pages
...Isabel; should it then be thus? No, I would tell what 'twere to be a judge, And what a prisoner. ANGELO Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. ISABELLA Alas, alas; Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And He that might the vantage... | |
 | George Thaddeus Wright - American poetry - 2001 - 348 pages
...her at her task, and gradually her language warms and reveals her intellectual power and subtlety: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would vou be 214 If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you arel O, think on that,... | |
 | 顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 838 pages
...mercy ( 慈悲) " 相求; 在一再以" mercy " 呼籲後， 她搬出上帝以為 論據: An 芭 Isab. Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. Alas, alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, And He that might the vantage best have... | |
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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? 
