 So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show...  Darwin, Carlyle, Dickens, the Fools, Jesters, and Comic Characters in ... - Page 272by Samuel Davey - 1879 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...those follies which it can neither justify nor forsake [81 Reproof, is confutation. JOHNSON. . NSON And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off, I'll so offend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1839 - 490 pages
...never promis'd, By how much better than my word I seem, By so much shall I falsify men's thoughts; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I 'll so offend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 pages
...debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes; 3 And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, 1 For the nonce signified for the purpose, for the occasion, for the once. The editor of the new edition... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1840 - 342 pages
...sun, whose splendour is more admired when he breaks through a mist, " So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By...ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off."f Shakspeare certainly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 472 pages
...seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behavior I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By...ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes. Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I 'll so offend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...little doubt that he is right, though Tyrwhitt would derive it from nanc. Note on Cant. Tales, v. 381. By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall...ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 594 pages
...little doubt that he is right, though Tyrwhitt would derive it from nunc. Note on Cant. Tales, v. 381. By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall...ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 594 pages
...doubt that he is right, though Tyrwhitt would derive it from nunc. Note on Cant. Tales, v. 381. By bow much better than my word I am, By so much shall I...ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...come, they wbJi'd-for come. And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when lliis loose behaviour ve to our tables meat, sleep to our nights ; Free from our feasts and banquets »how more goodly, and attract more eye«, Than that wliich hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend,... | |
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