 He who the sword of heaven will bear, Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.  Cooper's Works: The Heidenmauer - Page 303by James Fenimore Cooper - 1859Full view - About this book
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...'that he who would dispose others best must himself be best disposed' — which is Duke Vincentio's He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know . . . (Measure for Measure, III, ii.) 2 Aquinas, Selected Political Writings,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 168 pages
...must be sincerely religious " — or, as the Duke puts it in his soliloquy at the end of Act ra, , , He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe. (m, ii, 275-6) Furthermore, he must know and be able to govern himself; for, says Guevara, "when they... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...counter deception. The Duke's meditation opens with a couplet that editors rarely discuss in any detail: He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe. (3.2.254-5) The sword is a symbolic instrument of punishment even, presumably, of capital punishment.... | |
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