 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 440 pages
...[Music again.1 Enter PORTIA' and NERISSA, at a distance. For. That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Ner. When the moon shone, we did not see the candle. For. So doth the greater glory... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...night, And his affections dark as Erebus: J.ot no such man be trusted. A GOOD DEED COMPARED. Ho'.v far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. KOTIIING GOOD OUT OP SEiSON. The crow doth sing as sweetly as Ihe lark, When neither... | |
 | Samuel Frederick Johnson - Drama - 1989 - 316 pages
...culminating in the day and the night— lead into a brittle sequence of sententious quips. How far this little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (90 f.) This motif of glimmering through the darkness, figuratively as well as physically,... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 552 pages
...taste, or polite behavior'. Shakespeare, in his Merchant of Venice (ca. 1596), illustrates this use: "How far that little candle throws his beams!/ So shines a good deed in a naughty world." While nowadays naughty is most often applied to children, a person who commits a slight... | |
 | Milton Silverman, Mia Lydecker, Philip Lee - Social Science - 1992 - 380 pages
...Shakespeare touched on this matter. In the final scene of his Merchant of Venice, Portia declares: "How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world." AMMUNITION FOR THE CONSUMERS In the past, especially in industrialized societies, the... | |
 | Lou Michel - Architecture - 1995 - 328 pages
...Bibliography 258 Name Index 267 Subject Index 271 Portia: That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Nerissa: When the moon shone, we did not see the candle. Portia: So doth the greater... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...trusted. — Mark the music. Enter PORTIA and NERISSA. PORTIA. That light we see is burning in my hall. h, sir; by my troth, he is, as ever broke bread: but God is to be worsh naughty world. NERISSA. When the moon shone, we did not see the candle. PORTIA. So doth the greater... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...concord of sweet sounds. Is lit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. 10407 The Merchant of Venice arlit or a moonlit dome distains naughty world. 10408 The Merchant of Venice This night methinks is but the daylight sick. 10409 The... | |
 | Kathryn Ann Lindskoog - Humor - 2000 - 156 pages
...women to relate better to God and their families. That is, in fact, a good deed. Shakespeare wrote, "How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a naughty world." And as Ms. Morgan would add brightly, "He was so right, even 400 years ago!" Making... | |
 | Harry Levin - Drama - 2000 - 170 pages
...culminating in the day and the night — lead into a brittle sequence of sententious quips. How far this little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (90 f) This motif of glimmering through the darkness, figuratively as well as physically,... | |
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That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 
