 Of every hearer ; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.  The teeth: in health and diseasedi Edward Davieson - 1861 - 62 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pagine
...recognize all the excellence even of our dearest friends. "For it so fells out, That what we have we prize not to the worth While we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours." This... | |
 | 1867 - 396 pagine
...than building their sepulchres, and rearing costly memorials to their name,— " What we have we prize not to the worth, While we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us." So when death struck that midnight blow... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pagine
...request, To future days a libel or a jest I POSSESSION What we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. Sh. M. Ado. iv. 1.... | |
 | 1869 - 534 pagine
...The worth of a thing is best known by the want. Compare SHAKSPEARE : — "That which we have we prize not to the worth While we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not give us." Bien vengas, mal, si vienes solo. Span.... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 pagine
...his tail till he has lost it." " It so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value." SHAKS. " Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious things we have, Not knowing them until we know... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 pagine
...Telle est la vie. " . . . . For so it falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours." So moralises Shakspeare's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 120 pagine
...excused Of every hearer : for it so falls out, • That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack 2 the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.—So will... | |
 | 1874 - 404 pagine
...general of ministers as of other good things — " That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue that p»ssession would not shew us Whiles it was ours." And now that these... | |
 | 1875 - 540 pagine
...worth of a thing is best known by the want. Compare SH AKSFEARE : — " That which we have we prize not to the worth While we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not give us." Bien vengas, mal, si vienes solo. Span.... | |
 | James Rees - 1876 - 200 pagine
...prized." "The worth of a thing is best known by the want." French Proverb. " That which we have we prize not to the worth While we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value ; then we find The value that possession would not give us." Shakespeare. " So long as you are in good... | |
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