...who wrote 154. This is Number 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves...faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer flow'r is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flow'r with...

...legitimately call Rsis. He says of them: They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow. Note that he does not say they resist all temptations, but simply that they are sfow to react to them....

...divine reward they are said to merit: They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who moving others are themselves...graces, And husband nature's riches from expense[.] ( 1-6) It has proven particularly difficult for modem readers to see how being unmoved can be imagined...

...room.) Everyone. He's on his way. END They that have pow'r to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves...stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow — They righdy do inherit heaven's graces, And husband Nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and...

...power like the aristocratic beloved: They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow . . . (1-4) Even when these men say and "do" nothing, their nothing has an effect, particularly on...

...distinguish praise from blame: "They that have power to hurt and will do none, / That do not do the thing they most do show, / Who, moving others, are...as stone, / Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow" (94.1-4). The speaker cannot seem to decide whether "they" are admirably controlled, "to temptation...

...not do the thing, they most do showe, Who moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmooved. could, and to temptation slow: They rightly do inherit heaven's graces. And husband nature's ritches from expence. (lines 1 6) It has proven particularly difficult for modern readers to see how...

...Shakespeare drawn the temperament of the stage-player1 Willie Hughes was one of those 'That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone.' He could act love, hut could not feel it, could mimic passion without realising it. 'In many's looks...

...none, That do not do things they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmovéd, cold, and to temptation slow; They rightly do inherit...Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flow'r with base...

...the pow'r to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who moving others... who moving others are themselves as stone, Unmoved,...expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces... (She pauses here, mouths the whole sonnet up to that point, trying to get the line again.) Oh, yeah!...