 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 1000 pages
...severally. SCENE lit.— Paris.— A Room in the King's Palace. Enter BERTRAM, LAFED, and PAROI.LES. [there, Therefore commend knowledge, when we. should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.t Par. Why, 'tis the rarest argument... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it. — Clarendon. CCCLXXXVIII. They say, miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things lupernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make I 3 trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves... | |
 | David Richman - Comic, The - 1990 - 212 pages
...against which Lafeu, the old lordly commentator in All's Well That Ends Well, issues an eloquent warning: They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical...trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. (3.3.1-6) Having found in A Midsummer... | |
 | Marco Mincoff - Drama - 1992 - 148 pages
...rather bitter commentary on Jacobean society and a clue to our better understanding of the romances: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should... | |
 | Alan Cromer - Science - 1995 - 257 pages
...some feel for the tenor of the times from the words of one of Shakespeare's credulous old courtiers: "They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical...trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear" (All's Well That Ends Well, n.iii.1-6).... | |
 | David Haley - Drama - 1993 - 332 pages
...self-transcendence, opens accordingly on a note of wonder expressed by Lafew as he enters with Bertram and Parolles: They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit... | |
 | Russ McDonald - Drama - 1994 - 324 pages
...This tempest will not give me leave to ponder On things would hurt me more. (King Lear 3.4.24-25) 5. They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit... | |
 | Alan Tormaid Campbell - Indians of South America - 1995 - 266 pages
...That's what science has done for us all. Old Lafew in All's Well that Ends Well saw the predicament: They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical...trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. Art and ethnography But there are different... | |
 | William V. Spanos - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...Shakespeare implicit in the following speech of Lafeu in the latter, ironically entitled "problem play": "They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear" (Works 2.3.1-6). 80 Paul Brodtkorb Jr,... | |
 | Paul A. Bové - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 318 pages
...Measure, and the ironically entitled All's Well that Ends Well, in which one of the characters says: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical...familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit... | |
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They say miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves... 
