 | Scotland - 1860 - 796 pages
...knell of Drown'd ! Drown'd ! from the loved and maddened Ophelia, ending in the deep-voiced moral of King Lear — " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us." Mr Solomon, in his well-known Eicture, " Waiting for the Verdict," as already shown... | |
 | American periodicals - 1873 - 866 pages
...our readers? It is not easy to commend them too warmly for their accuracy and their cheapness. with " King Lear " : — The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us. Compare — What know I of the queene Niobe ? Let be thin old ensaumplis, I the pray.... | |
 | England - 1860 - 668 pages
...knell of Drown'd ! Drown'd ! from the loved and maddened Ophelia, ending in the deep-voiced moral of King Lear — " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us," Mr Solomon, in his well-known picture, "Waiting for the Verdict," has already shown... | |
 | England - 1860 - 856 pages
...knell of Drown'd ! Drown'd ! from the loved and maddened Ophelia, ending in the deep-voiced moral of King Lear — " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us." Mr Solomon, in his well-known picture, " Waiting for the Verdict," has already shown... | |
 | 1873 - 896 pages
...our readers? It is not easy to commend thera too warmly for their accuracy and their cheapness. with "King Lear": — The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us. Compare — What know I of the queenc Niobe ? Let be thin old ensaumplis, I the pray.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 606 pages
...oft a yerd With which the maker is himself ybeten In sundry manor as thes wise men tretyn,' with ' King Lear ' : — ' The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.' Compare — ' What know I of the queene Niobe ? Let bo thin old ensauinplis, I the... | |
 | Theology - 1882 - 540 pages
...the passage in Bishop Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, by Professor Plumptre, who quotes King Lear — ' The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us '). And we believe most assuredly that human beings in the Intermediate State, though... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1881 - 458 pages
...Sometimes it means a tool, or means, or implement by which some purpose is effected. Thus Edgar says in Lear — The Gods are just and of our pleasant vices Make Instruments to plague us. So Smith speaks of Money as the ' great Instrument of Exchange,' or ' Instrument of Commerce.'... | |
 | Theology - 1882 - 552 pages
...the passage in Bishop Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, by Professor Plumptre, who quotes King Lear — ' The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us '). And we believe most assuredly that human beings in the Intermediate State, though... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Banks and banking - 1883 - 592 pages
...Sometimes it means a tool, or implement, or means by which some purpose is effected. Thus Edgar says in Lear — " The Gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make Instruments to plague us " So Smith speaks of Money as the " Great Instrument of Exchange " or " Instrument of Commerce "... | |
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. 
