Bible Truths with Shakespearean Parallels: Being Selections from Scripture, Moral, Doctrinal, and Preceptial, with Passages Illustrative of the Text from the Writings of Shakespeare |
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... MACBETH . Act I. Scene 7 . Fling away ambition , By that sin angels fell ; how can man then , The image of his Maker , hope to win by't . KING HENRY VIII . Act III . Scene 2 . Glory is like a circle in the water , Which never ceases to ...
... MACBETH . Act I. Scene 7 . Fling away ambition , By that sin angels fell ; how can man then , The image of his Maker , hope to win by't . KING HENRY VIII . Act III . Scene 2 . Glory is like a circle in the water , Which never ceases to ...
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... MACBETH . Act 1. Scene 7 . O error , soon conceived , Thou never com'st unto a happy birth , But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee . JULIUS CESAR . Sowed cockle , reap'd no corn . Act . v . Scene 3 . LOVE'S LABOUR LOST . Act IV ...
... MACBETH . Act 1. Scene 7 . O error , soon conceived , Thou never com'st unto a happy birth , But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee . JULIUS CESAR . Sowed cockle , reap'd no corn . Act . v . Scene 3 . LOVE'S LABOUR LOST . Act IV ...
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... MACBETH . Act II . Scene 2 . Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind : The thief doth fear each bush an officer . KING HENRY VI . ( 3d part ) . Act v . Scene 6 . 1 Prov . x . 24 . C A wicked conscience Mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy ...
... MACBETH . Act II . Scene 2 . Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind : The thief doth fear each bush an officer . KING HENRY VI . ( 3d part ) . Act v . Scene 6 . 1 Prov . x . 24 . C A wicked conscience Mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy ...
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... MACBETH . Act III . Scene 2 . The clogging burden of a guilty soul . KING RICHARD II . Act I. Scene 3 . Great guilt , Like poison given to work a great time after , Now ' gins to bite the spirits . THE TEMPEST . Act III . Scene 3 . To ...
... MACBETH . Act III . Scene 2 . The clogging burden of a guilty soul . KING RICHARD II . Act I. Scene 3 . Great guilt , Like poison given to work a great time after , Now ' gins to bite the spirits . THE TEMPEST . Act III . Scene 3 . To ...
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... . Nought's had , all's spent , Where our desire is got without content . MACBETH . Act III . Scene 2 . 1 Micah vi . 14 , 15 . 2 1 Tim . vi . 17 ; Matt . xiii . 22 . Poor , and content , is rich , and rich SHAKSPEAREAN PARALLELS . 23.
... . Nought's had , all's spent , Where our desire is got without content . MACBETH . Act III . Scene 2 . 1 Micah vi . 14 , 15 . 2 1 Tim . vi . 17 ; Matt . xiii . 22 . Poor , and content , is rich , and rich SHAKSPEAREAN PARALLELS . 23.
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ALL'S allusions Bible Blessed COMEDY OF ERRORS conscience CYMBELINE death deed Deut devil doth earth ECCLES Ecclus evil eyes fall faults fear forgive genius GENTLEMEN OF VERONA glory HAMLET hand hath heart heaven HENRY IV HENRY VIII honour iniquity John JULIUS CESAR KING HENRY VI KING HENRY VIII KING LEAR KING RICHARD KING RICHARD II Lord Love's Labour's Lost Luke MACBETH maketh Matt MEASURE FOR MEASURE men's MERCHANT OF VENICE mercy MERRY WIVES morality nature never OTHELLO poor praise PRINCE OF TYRE PROV rich saith Scene Scripture Shakspeare Shakspeare's shalt shew soul spirit thee thine things thou hast TIMON OF ATHENS tongue TROILUS AND CRESSIDA truth TWELFTH NIGHT unto virtue wicked wickedness WINTER'S TALE WIVES OF WINDSOR words xvii xxiv xxvi xxviii xxxi
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Page 70 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 10 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and behold a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 138 - tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow ; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral, when he shall endure The like himself: therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 78 - By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 18 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!
Page 37 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 76 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 4 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him : for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
Page 65 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the./ light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 31 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...