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" The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. "
Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of ... - Page 778
by William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe - 1709
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Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...abstract perfection— \ " Those faultless monsters which the world ne'er saw"— " the web of our lives is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues...would be proud, if our faults whipt them not; and our vices would despair, if they were not encouraged by our virtues." This was truly and finely said long...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...his valour hath here acquired for him, shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. 1 Lord. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together : our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues. — Enter...
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The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed

William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...be drown our gain in tears ! The great dignity, thathis encountered with a shame as ample. 1 Lord. y I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh,...to receive Three thousand ducats : I'll not answe whipped them not ; and our crimes would il. •• |'..ir, if they were not cberish'd by our virtues....
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 18, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 472 pages
...his valour hath here acquired for him, shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. 1 Lord. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues.— Enter...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...his valour hath here acquired for him, shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. 1 Lord. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish 'd by our virtues. — Enter...
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Prose

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...twenty to follow my own teaching. Men's evil manners live in brafs } their virtues we write in water. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together; our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would defpair, if they were not cheriihed by our virtuss. The fenfe...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 844 pages
...his valour hath here acquired for him, shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. J Lori}. Gonzalo ! Соя. And, piuud, if oui faults whipped them not; and our crime» would despair, if they were not cherub 41 by...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 390 pages
...his valour hath here acquired tor him, shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. I Lord, The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and...together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair, it they were not cherish/fl by our virtues. — Enter...
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Man of Two Lives: A Narrative Written by Himself

James Boaden - English literature - 1829 - 340 pages
...the great dramatic poet of England, in a metaphor which the Continent might think wanted dignity—' The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...if our faults whipt them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.' " " This fastidious taste of the Continent," said...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...three grains of honesty would save him all this trouble: — alas! he has them not. — Sterne. CCCCVL The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. — Shakspeare....
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