 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2004 - 198 pages
...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...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. (4.3.69-72)... | |
 | J. Mark Thompson, Candace Cotlove - 2005 - 324 pages
...lite with someone she loved, and at a time when she herself finally was capable ot loving in return. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...our faults whipp'd them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish'd by our virtues." (Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act 4,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 340 pages
...that his 70 valor hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. FIRST LORD The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good...together. Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes 75 would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. Enter... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2005 - 418 pages
...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...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" (4.3.2177-80).... | |
 | Peter Tremayne - 2007 - 351 pages
...and of Furies, and I know not what. . . ." He coughed again and then smiled, as if apologetically. 68 "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whispered this not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues." "The... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2005 - 264 pages
...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...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. (IV. iii.... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 pages
...'dignity: shame'), a tone and movement summed up with complete consistency in the concluding reflection: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud, if out faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 pages
...Shakespeare's play cannot be denied. The difference is a matter of metaphor rather than intellectual content: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...our faults whipp'd them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish 'd by our virtues. (4.2:68-71) In both Shakespeare and Montaigne this... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg, Mary Rosenberg - 2006 - 628 pages
...in All's Well sums up the incomprehensible paradoxes and complexities of life in his comment in 4.3: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...our faults whipp'd them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues. How especially true that is of Anthony and Cleopatra.... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2006 - 186 pages
...another related image that the First Lord observes: "The web of our life," he contends more universally, "is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipt them not, and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish'd by our virtues" (4.3.71-74).... | |
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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. 
