 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - 1993 - 108 Seiten
...ourselves and our nature. In All's Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare says, 'the web of our lives is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Our virtues...despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.' Again, it seemed obvious to me that if this was one of the central tenets of the play, the chief female... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 Seiten
...moral observation, stressing the inevitable mixture in the human makeup of good and bad qualities: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. (4.3.74-7) It is no accident that this compassionate comment on Bertram is immediately followed by... | |
 | Craig Alan Kridel - 1998 - 320 Seiten
...common. Both are narratives, and both face the challenge of untangling, telling and emplotting a life: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. (Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, IV. iii. 83) Both require the creation of a story line that... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 Seiten
...callous attitude of the conventional code. Such is our study of Bertram. As one of the Lords says : The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. (iv. iii. 83) IV Helena possesses those old-world qualities of simplicity, sincerity, and integrity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 Seiten
...virtue none, It is a dropsied honour. Good alone Is good without a name King — All's Well II.iii The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. First Lord — All's Well IV.iii Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Duke—MforM IILi But... | |
 | Suzanne Enoch - 2009 - 383 Seiten
...written beneath it. "Oh, my," she breathed. This was becoming very complicated, indeed. Chapter 15 The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. —All's Welt That Ends Well, Act IV. Scene iii Georgiana liked to ride early on Mondays. With that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 288 Seiten
...that his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. Lord G The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...were not cherished by our virtues. Enter a [SERVANT as] messenger How now? Where's your master? All's Well that ends Well 131 Cap. G. I perceiue by this... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2004 - 198 Seiten
...First Lord makes this clear in what is a strikingly summary observation in All's Well That Ends Well: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. (4.3.69-72) The very materiality of a web reveals its simplicity and its complexity at once. What is... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2005 - 418 Seiten
...against his own nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself. (4.3.2125-31) And then, more generally: "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...despair if they were not cherished by our virtues" (4.3.2177-80). The play looks to ends, and tells us that Heaven, using weak human instruments, is capable... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2005 - 264 Seiten
...And again before the trial of Parolles and Bertram, the 'First Lord', speaking chorus-like, asserts : The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. (IV. iii. 83-7.) The settings for Shakespeare's plays are still romantic — youth, wealth, and beauty... | |
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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. 
