Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace , To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's,... "
The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George ... - Page 237
by William Shakespeare - 1807
Full view - About this book

Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Volume 14

Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 494 pages
...tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, — are all with thee. — LONGFELLOW. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st...fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! — SHAKESPEAXE. Thou too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity...
Full view - About this book

Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Volume 10

Robert W. Uphaus - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 172 pages
...ambition! By that sin fell the angels; how can man then (The image of his Maker) hope to win by it? Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate...fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. (435-49) Wolsey's gnomic lines at once draw on the known materials of history and reinterpret them...
Limited preview - About this book

Brooklyn Medical Journal, Volume 4

Medicine - 1890 - 848 pages
...ambition : By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, then, The image of his maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate...and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou faH'st a blessed martyr ! 5 7. Give four rules for the use of capitals with examples from the above...
Full view - About this book

The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty . 445 Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence...country's, Thy God's, and truth's. Then if thou fall'st, 0 Cromwell, Thou fall ' st a blessed martyr . 450 Serve the King. And prithee, lead me in; There take...
Limited preview - About this book

Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...can man then, / The image of his maker, hope to win by it? / Love thyself last, cherish those liearts that hate thee; / Corruption wins not more than honesty....thy country's /Thy God's and truth's: then if thou falPst, O Cromwell, /Thou fall'sta blessed martyr. / Serve the king: and primee lead me in: /There...
Limited preview - About this book

Shakespeare's Last Plays: Essays in Literature and Politics

Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...Addressed to Cromwell, these lines by Wolsey once again focus attention upon justice, truth, and integrity: Be just, and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st...fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. (3.2.446-49) The martyr that first comes to mind here, having been mentioned only a few lines earlier...
Limited preview - About this book

Walking in Humility

Michael Vincent - Religion - 2003 - 222 pages
...As Cardinal Wolsey says to Lord Cromwell in Shakespeare's HemxV.111 (Act III, Scene II, Line 441), Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that...and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou falFst a blessed martyr! 155 God must be our ultimate and first love. We must fling away ambition....
Limited preview - About this book

Critical Studies in Kural

M. S. Purnalingam Pillai - Didactic poetry, Tamil - 1999 - 112 pages
...moralist will be satisfied with his precepts and maxims on hate and the evil-doer. Shakespeare has, 11 Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate...envious tongues ; be just and fear not. Let all the ends tbou aim'st be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." Vide Study VI on " Virtues and Vices." " To punish...
Limited preview - About this book

After A Shadow

T. S. Arthur - Fiction - 2004 - 186 pages
...utterance. It has been running through my mind ever since: - '"Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:...fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.' '"Love thyself last. - Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's.' Could...
Limited preview - About this book

Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England

Susannah Brietz Monta - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 262 pages
...the demands of truth and conscience. Fifty lines later, Wolsey offers Cromwell a similar injunction: "Be just, and fear not. / Let all the ends thou aim'st...fall'st, O Cromwell, / Thou fall'st a blessed martyr" (446-9). Wolsey's injunction aligns truth with political "ends"; the trouble for Cromwell, of course,...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF