... such consolations. Instead of the perpetual sense of the helpful presence of the Deity, which through all heathen tradition is the source of heroic strength, in battle, in exile, and in the valley of the shadow of... The Mystery of Life and Its Arts - Sayfa 19John Ruskin tarafından - 1869 - 45 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 428 sayfa
...He quoted, with the bitterest despair, to Scott the strong expression of Shakspeare, ' The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us ;' * and added, ' I would to God that I could have your peace of mind, Mr Scott ; I would give all I have, all... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 sayfa
...He quoted, with the bitterest despair, to Scott the strong expression of Shakspeare, ' The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us ;' * and added, ' I would to God that I could have your peace of mind, Mr Scott ; I would give all I have, all... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 sayfa
...time appear, we shall in the end realise the truth of great Shakspere's words, that — "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us." And in " Eugene Aram's Dream" this truth is preached as with a tongue of fire. We see that when the murderer... | |
| 1856 - 606 sayfa
...time appear, we shall in the end realise the truth of great Shakespeare's 'words, that " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.",. And in Palmer's life and death, we have a striking illustration of these truths. For several years of his... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1861 - 914 sayfa
...evil — good for good. Edgar, though a pagan, recognises this in these lines : — '* The gods are maid ; And here the maiden sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty gr the dying villain Edmund admits this truth, and exclaims — " The wheel is come full circle ; I am... | |
| 1865 - 912 sayfa
...— evil for evil, good for good. Edgar, though a pagan, recognises this in the lines 1 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.' And the dying villain Edmund admits its truth, and exclaims, ' The wheel is come full circle, I am hero.'... | |
| 1871 - 380 sayfa
...canto i. stanzas 1s, 19, 34. P. 123, stanza 26. vol. vi. P. 277. •The Dieam," sec. 2. " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us." and added, ' I would to God that I could have your peace of mind, Mr. Scott ; I would give all I have,... | |
| John Fox - 1871 - 380 sayfa
...' with the bitterest despair, to Scott the strong1"'" expression of Shakspeare : — " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us." and added, ' I would to God that I could have your peace of mind, Mr. Scott ; I would give all I have,... | |
| George Herbert - 1874 - 386 sayfa
...others) are very memorable. They may bear comparison with even Shakespeare's Lear (v. 3): ' The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.' and his genius that derated what would in others have been faults into graces. 1 Dr. George Macdonald (in... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1882 - 540 sayfa
...Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, by Professor Plumptre, who quotes King Lear — ' The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us '). And we believe most assuredly that human beings in the Intermediate State, though ' disembodied,' are not... | |
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