| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. . Again: MercJiant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 1. . Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than ,any man in all Venice: his reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...characteristic of malignant disposition, we see in the speech of the good-natural Gratiano, who spoke " an infinite deal of nothing more than any man in all Venice j" 93 " . Too wild, too rude and bold of voice," the skipping spirit, whose thoughts and words reciprocally... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 376 pages
...own tongue. Ant. Farewell : I'll grow a talker for this gear. \_Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO. Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, ' That you to-day... | |
| Samuel Pegge - Anecdotes - 1818 - 464 pages
...investigation ; and what follows will, I suspect, be thought not unlike Gratiano's reasons ; viz. " As two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff;...when you have them, they are not worth the search*." But, as the History of Coaches in general, and particularly of Hackney Coaches, has never been drawn... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. ^Exeunt Gratiano and Lorenzo. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search. . Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you... | |
| Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 pages
...Bassanio in the play gays of Gratiano's conversation, 'they speak an infinite deal of nothing. Their reasons are as two grains of wheat, hid in two bushels...seek all day ere you find them ; and when you have theoi they are пot worth the search.'" But still there are some of very great value. We refer the... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 pages
...be said of the parts that are selected, that, like Gratiano's reasons, they are ' as two grains of 4 wheat, hid in two bushels of chaff, you shall seek...find them, and when you have them they are not worth VOL. XI. NS 3 A ' the search.' The autograph of an unpublished MS. is doubtless a treasure to its possessor,... | |
| Mrs. Ross, Author of The balance of comfort - English fiction - 1819 - 270 pages
...speaks an infinite deal of nothing. His reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; yon shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search." SHAKSPBAIW. THE result of the conference between the Bishop and Lord Montague, was the immediate departure... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...That therefore only are reputed wise, For saying nothing. Merchant of Venice, Act 1. Sc. 2. Again : Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : his reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...reputed wise, For saying nothing. Merchant of Venice, Act 1. Sc. 2. Again : Gratiano speaks an infmite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : his reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when... | |
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