 | 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...light and shade, And oft so mix, the diff'rence is too nice Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. 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? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...Is alleged to hnvimade a similar self-sacrifice, leaping Into a chasm in the Roman forum. And oft so ridiculed Dryden. A man so Slfl Fools! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white... | |
 | Charles Morse, Walter Edwin Lear, Edward Betley Brown - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 636 pages
...of virtue which would require to have such a statutory guard is scarcely worth the sentinel : — " The difference is too nice. " Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice." There is no binding authority to guide me on this important question, but I attach great weight to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...the other's bounds invade^ As^ in ,.-.min ic. wi-ll-ujinil^lirTpirJajiicyJigV^^nJ sbad?ij •r/X' a Where ends the Virtue, or begins the Vice. 210 Fools...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 pages
...the mind. Extremes in Nature equal ends produce, 205 Where ends the Virtue, or begins the Vice. no Fools! who from hence into the notion fall, That Vice...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... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1901 - 502 pages
...Schiller's >Und die tugend, sie ist kein leerer schall« erinnert. Dort (II 211 ff.) heisst es: »Pools! 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?« Aber in welchem zusammenhange sagt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...III 159 ff. and on which, in the traditional view, the well-being of the world is founded. And oft so mix, the difference is too nice Where ends the Virtue,...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... | |
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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... 
