The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes... Public Documents of Massachusettsby Massachusetts - 1862Full view - About this book
| Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...a fault ; The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heav'n, Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed : It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. The internal taxes are raised or reduced at the discretion of the king, which, with the... | |
| mrs. Burke - 1805 - 234 pages
...CHAP. III. " The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; " It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven " Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed— " It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. It becomes " The throned Monarch better than his crown." AlTER the departure of Mr. O'... | |
| Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 526 pages
...fault ; • The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heav'n, Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed : It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. The internal taxes are raised or reduced at the discretion of the king, which with the... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...(SHAKESPEARE.) THE quality of Mercy is not strain'd; ]t droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon- the place beneath. It is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes j Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...mercy, a work of charity of the highest order. " It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven " Upon the place beneath; — it is twice blessed ; " It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." The distribution of our Tracts is, therefore, one department of eminent usefulness, to... | |
| John Mathew Gutch - 1822 - 584 pages
...IN IRELAND. The quality of mercy is not strained : It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : It is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 372 pages
...that. Por. The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
| Henry Blake - Connemara (Ireland) - 1825 - 392 pages
...experience, that " The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." • " Erin mavourneen ! Erin go bragh." A. THE END. G. WOODFALL, ANOBL r OEltr. SKINNER... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...'Solemnity. The quality of mercy is not strained j It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; ' it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
| 1826 - 492 pages
...told us, in the genuine language of nature, that ' it descends, like rain, from heaven, upon the spot beneath. It is twice blessed : it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.' It is the most disinterested of all principles, and therefore the most commendable. The... | |
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