 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - 400 pages
...neat's tongue dry'd, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. an^LoREN. Anth. Is that any thing now ! Bats. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...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 - 768 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;...ere you find them ; and when you have them, they are pot worth tjie search." I have gone through his last paper, which you have indulged with insertion... | |
 | 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...when " you have them, they are not worth the search." It is therefore futility in the thought, and not perspicuity in the language, which is the fault of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 452 pages
...i'faith; for silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO. Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite...you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Ant. Well; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 350 pages
...Gra. and Loren. Anth. Is that any thing now ? * Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing,3 more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are...when you have them, they are not worth the search. Anth. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same ' . • To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 936 pages
...the soul upon it. L'JI-C. 3. Inquiry ; act of seeking ; with of, fur, or after. His reasons are at two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you...when you have them they are not worth the search. Sbaisfeare. Who great in search of God and nature grow, They best the wise Creator's praise declare.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 412 pages
...tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. \_ I''. i, -unt Gratiano and Lorenzo. Ant. It that any thing now? Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing,...reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaft'; you shall seek all day ere you find them -. and, when you have them, they are not worth the... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Fools and jesters - 1807 - 356 pages
...had imagined the society might afford ; this brings to mind these lines in the Merchant of Venice : " Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search". _ ;NG or FOOLS. •IS'-] e is naught, sir, so fraught, sir ; in love affairs, is a species , as to... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Satire, English - 1807 - 330 pages
...had imagined the society might afford; this brings to mind these lines in the Merchant of Venice: " Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search." K Or, if the German you are praising, \ His knowledge of that tongue's amazing , As well as Spanish,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 398 pages
...neat's tongue dry'd, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. and LOREN. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Enss. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well ytell me now, what lady is this same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promis'd... | |
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