Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours... Elements of Criticism - Page 99by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 494 pages
...inftant that (he was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pity'd, and excus'd, Of every hearer • For it fo falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth,...; but being lack'd and loft, Why, then we rack the value;9 then we find The virtue that pofleffion would not fhew us Whilftit was ours : So will it fare... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 456 pages
...the inftant that fhe was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pity'd, and excus'd, Of every hearer : for it fo falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, (18) (17) Your Daughter hire the Princefs (left for dead) But how curr.es Hen to dart up a Princefs... | |
| Mrs. Griffith (Elizabeth), Elizabeth Griffith - Didactic drama, English - 1775 - 626 pages
...the inftant that fhe was accufed, Shall be lamented, pitied, and excufed, Of every hearer : for it fo falls out, That what we have, we prize not to the worth, • On her fainting. Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and loft, ' Why then we reck the value ;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1784 - 1118 pages
...-ill be lamented, pity'd, and excus'd, O! every hearer ; For it fo falls out, Ttut « hat we h.ive we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft, \Vhy, then we rack 2 the value ; then we find The virtue tliat polTcffion would not (hew us Whiles... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...chance, Some trick not worth an egg, fhall grow dear friends, And intcrjoin their iflues. • So it falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth....enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft. Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The virtue that pofleffion would not Ihew us Whilft it was ours. / *•... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1785 - 456 pages
...instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pity'd, and excus'd, Of every hearer: " For it so falls out, " That what we have we prize not to the...worth, " Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, 230 " Why, then we rack the value ; then we find " Tiie virtue, that possession would not shew... | |
| William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann - 1786 - 654 pages
...the inftant that me was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pity'd, and excus'd, Of every hearer : for it fo falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth,...enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft, Why, then we b rack the value ; then we find The virtue, that poflefiion would not fhew us Whiles it was ours :—... | |
| Andrew Becket - 1787 - 494 pages
...can of thofe myfteries which heaven Will not have earth to know. Coriolanus, A. 4, S. 2. • It fo falls out, That what "we have we prize not to the...being lack'd and loft, Why,* then we' rack the value '. . ...:» : Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. i. ..' y. . J </!. • 4 .;;".' WRONG. — — - The... | |
| John Leake - Pregnancy - 1787 - 470 pages
...competent idea of former indigence,' to contraft fuch a ftatc and exalt his prefent enjoyment. " For it fo falls out> *' That what we have, we prize not to the worth " While we enjoy it; but being lack'dand loft, " Why, then we rack the value; then we find • *' The... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 548 pages
...uniformly -} and at laft becomes extreme, when the pleafure of gratification is reduced to nothing : -It fo falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft, Why then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue... | |
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