 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2691897Full view - About this book
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pages
...by their deeds, that — Billy Vortex, in his grave, is still our political North-Star! ! ! " So it falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The virtue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pitied and excus'd, Of every hearer : For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not...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 : — So will it fare... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pitied and excus'd, Of every hearer : For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not...being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value ;a then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours : — So will it fare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...maintain'd, * Upon the instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pitied, and excus'd, Of every hearer: for it so falls out That what we have we prize not...enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost, "Why, then we ractt the value ; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours : —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 pages
...maintam'd, Upon the iustant that she was accus'd, Shall he lamented, pitied, 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 ; hut heing lack'd and lost, Why, then we rackt the value ; then we find The virtue, that possession... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...maintain'd, Upon the instant that she was accus'd, Shall be lamented, pitied and excus'd, Of every hearer : For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not...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 :*— So will it... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...Jusques a ce qu'elle 1'ait perdue." The cow did not know the value of her tail, until she had lost it " What we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we...being lack'd and lost, Why then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not give us Whiles it was ours." Ne ad Aures quidem... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...habit." And if we look around us on the dispensation of life's blessings, weoften find that " So it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth While we enjoy it ; but, being locked and lost, Why then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. 7. — -So it falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth While we enjoy it : but being lack'd .and lost, Why then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...character of the speaker. ' Her affection has its full bent' is no doubt taken from archery. B. Friar. It so falls out, That what we have we prize not to...being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value. ice rack the value ; ie We exaggerate the value. The allusion is to rack-rents. STEEV. ' Rack the value.'... | |
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