 | Comparative linguistics - 1901 - 500 pages
...an Schiller's >Und die tugend, sie ist kein leerer schall« erinnert. Dort (II 211 ff.) heisst es: »Fools! who from hence into the notion fall, That...virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?« Aber in welchem zusammenhange sagt... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 658 pages
...each by turns the other's bounds invade, As in some well-wrought picture light and shade, Aud oft so mix, the difference is too nice Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 696 pages
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 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...each by turns the other's bounds invade, As in some well-wrought picture light and shade ; And oft so mix, the difference is too nice Where ends the Virtue or begins the Vice. Fools I who from hence into the notion fall in That Vice or Virtue there is none at all. If white and... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...Then say not man's imperfect, heaven in fault; Say rather man's as perfect as he ought. And oft so mix the difference is too nice, Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. Nothing is foreign ; parts relate to whole ; One all-extending, all-preserving soul Connects each being,... | |
 | Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler - English language - 1906 - 392 pages
...debatable ground. Full idiom and full slang are as far apart as virtue and vice ; and yet They oft so mix, the difference is too nice Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice. Any one who can confidently assign each of the following phrases to its own territory may feel that... | |
 | Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler - English - 1908 - 392 pages
...debatable ground. Full idiom and full slang are as far apart as virtue and vice ; and yet They oft so mix, the difference is too nice Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice. Any one who can confidently assign each of the following phrases to its own territory may feel that... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary curiosa - 1909 - 1116 pages
...a few more instances, selected almost at random : Extremes in Nature equal ends produce, And oft so mix the difference is too nice. Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. POPH. Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. MILTON : Paradise Lost, Book Щ. Such huge extremes... | |
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Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs... 
