 They say, miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is, that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when •we should submit ourselves...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3511897Full view - About this book
 | Massimo Ciavolella, Patrick Coleman, Professor of French Patrick Coleman - 2005 - 265 pages
...courtier Lafew advocates caution in dismissing wonders from the world: 'They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 260 pages
...wise old nobleman of All's Well That Ends Well, with Macbeth: Lafew They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 432 pages
...with the question why television is (also) repellent. 12 Prenom: Marie They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 340 pages
...narrated (continued) Enter Count r Bertram? Lafew, and Parottes. LAFEW They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and...familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should 5... | |
 | Robert Boyle - 2005 - 521 pages
...1958, 294). c Birch 1772, Llxvi. Henry More 'perceiv'd by what he sayd to me' that 'Mr Boyle past, and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. 'a In 1645 Lord Culpepper noted that 'this is no age for miracles,' and a year later Sir Edward Hyde... | |
 | Andrew Keith Malcolm Adam - 212 pages
...that presents a particularly apt description of biblical modernists: "They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless" (All's Well That Ends Well 2.3.2). 4. Indeed, to judge by recent book tides, biblical studies seems... | |
 | George Latimer Apperson - 2006 - 656 pages
...for miracles are ceas'd. 1 602: All's Hell That Ends Well n iii l , They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. It has been suggested that Shakespeare's wording suggests that the proverb is of earlier origin. 1840:... | |
 | John D. Cox - 2007 - 368 pages
...conversations. 1 SKEPTICISM AND SUSPICION IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and...familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit... | |
 | Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson - 2007 - 270 pages
...instructive and may be considered the true center of gravity in the play: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves with seeming knowledge, when we should... | |
 | Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen - 2007 - 238 pages
...inappropriate in the face of such marvels as the king's restoration to health: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern...familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should... | |
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