 I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 361edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...Tliis is signior Antonio. Shy, [Aside.] How like a fawning publican be looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian. But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratia, and brings down The rate of usance here with ив in Venice. 1 This ¡я an allusion to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...publican he ' look«! I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that, in low simplicity, He leuds t ; And, if mine eyes can wound, now let them W thee; Now counter in Venice. Tf I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge 1 bear him. He... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - History - 1987 - 282 pages
...reason for his hatred for Shylock says: How like a fawning publican he looks! 1 hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He...gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. (1.3.42-46) By doing so, Antonio is acting in accordance with the economic ideal of the... | |
 | Philip Brockbank - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 198 pages
...characterization of Shylock. The principal moments of choice were these, in 1.3: I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity...gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice . . . He hates our sacred nation and he rails Even there where merchants most do congregate... | |
 | Paul Millett - Business & Economics - 2002 - 388 pages
...imagined from the other side, there is Shylock's verdict on Antonio (1.111.43) : I hate him, for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He...gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. The wider implications of this passage are brought out by Nelson (1969: 142-51) and Wills... | |
 | G. Beiner - Aggressiveness in literature - 1993 - 332 pages
...overhear the thoughts expressed in the aside: How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity...gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...consequence), but insists on putting to Antonio. Shylock's complaint about Antonio, partly practical ("he lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice" [1.3.39-40]), is partly also a complaint alxmt Antonio's categorization of his activities:... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...clunking pun on "rats/rates," linked to usance, when Shylock airs his grievances first in an aside ("He lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice" [2.41-42]) and then publicly: "Signior Antonio, many a time and oft / in the Rialto you... | |
 | John Gross - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 404 pages
...like a fawning publican he looks!" says Shylock when Antonio first enters — / hate him for he is a Christian: But more, for that in low simplicity...gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. "I hate him for he is a Christian" — the line could be made to sound almost perfunctory,... | |
 | Ralph Windle - Business & Economics - 1994 - 216 pages
...not eat with you, drink with you, Nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He...gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He... | |
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