QUOTES FROM THE BARD

There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.

PLAY: The Tempest
ACT/SCENE: 1.2
SPEAKER: Miranda
CONTEXT:
There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with ’t.

DUTCH:
In zulk een tempel kan geen boosheid wonen;
Waar’ ‘s Boozen huis zoo schoon, wat goed is trachtte
Met hem ‘t verblijf te deelen.


MORE:
In Shakespeare’s time beauty was seen as a signifier of virtue. See Thomas Hoby’s translation of the Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier(1561). Fourth Book: True beauty, the reflection of
goodness.


Topics: virtue, appearance, agood and bad

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