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... The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Seite 95von William Shakespeare - 1767Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| R. W. McNeel - 2005 - 157 Seiten
...the same thought in The Merchant of Venice, when one of his characters says, "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." That this weakness of human nature is of long standing makes it particularly... | |
| Syd Pritchard - 2005 - 149 Seiten
...have seen, See what I see! [Hamlet III i 160] Pupil shares teacher's frustration 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. [Merchant Of Venice I ii 1 1 ] / shall th 'effect of this good lesson... | |
| Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 Seiten
...passed into familiar and daily application, with all the force of proverbs. 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. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) - 2007 - 560 Seiten
...most famous heroine, Portia, speaks to Nerissa in this scene; the speech begins "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." 31 James Baldwin also admired Shakespeare's efforts "to defeat all... | |
| Derek Bok - 2006 - 430 Seiten
...judgment and behave improperly. As Portia observes in The Merchant of Venice, "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages prince's palaces. . . . I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to... | |
| Miriam Weinmann - 2007 - 57 Seiten
...„Moralpredigt" und hält ihre eigene Moral auf witzige Art und Weise dagegen. ("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, ..." I, 2, 12- 14) Die beiden kommen auch auf die bisherigen Bewerber... | |
| James R. Hartman - 2007 - 518 Seiten
...nothing. Good statements and well delivered. They would be better if well followed. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages would have been princes' palaces. It is a good clergyman that follows his own instructions.... | |
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