 Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 831865Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - 402 pages
...Is that any thing now ! Bats. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of. wheat hid in two bushels of chaff ; you : : Cij shall sliall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1811 - 766 pages
...Like Oratiano, he "talks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons sre as two grains of wheat, hid in two bushels of chaff; 'you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and when you have them, they are pot worth tjie search." I have gone through... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1798 - 458 pages
...faction, as far at least as he could judge from the evidence of the Public Journals, may be compared to " two grains of •wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and ivhenyoubavethem, they arc not-worth the search*." The just application... | |
 | Great Britain - 1799 - 574 pages
...coujthat ,he, pncc, at Magdalen College, Oxford, had it explained to him, that .the famous ; passage '.' His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, " has no sort of reference to verbal criticism 10 / •• . i '.' I i * " "» ' \ ? t •• , . RECOMMENDATORY'... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...Bassanio in the play gives of Gratiano's conversation : " He " speaks an infinite deal of nothing. His reasons are " as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; " you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when " you have them, they are not worth the search." It is therefore futility... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...Is that any thing now ? Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff ; you shall seek all day ere you find them; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant . Well ; tell me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...Is that any thing now? Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well; tell me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 576 pages
...Is that any thing now ? Bass. Gratiano speaks an infmite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well ; tell me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 452 pages
...[Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO. Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice: His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Is that any thing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 350 pages
...that any thing now ? * Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing,3 more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. Anth. Well ; tell me... | |
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