 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...gracious3 voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow AVill bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness...beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars ; Who, inward search'd, nave livers white as milk ? And these assume but valour's excrement, To render them redoubted.... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...voice, And cover'd with fair specious subtilties, Obscures the show of reason? In religion, What damn'd error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text? There is no vice so artless, but assumes Some mark of virtue on its outward parts, Hiding the grossness... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - God - 1997 - 66 pages
...verses fit with anything. Shakespeare put it well in the Merchant of Venice: "In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve...a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished in principle at all from liberalism,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...the eyes. With gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. 10401 The Merchant of Venice There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 10402 The Merchant of Venice The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 1999 - 648 pages
...corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show ofevil? In religion, What damnd error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding thegrossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark ofvirtue on his outward... | |
 | Lloyd Graham - Religion - 1991 - 496 pages
...the hoax that we too may partake of "the tree of knowledge." 3 The Serpent In religion what damned error but some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text. SHAKESPEARE. Asa molder of religious thought, the third chapter of Genesis has been, perhaps, the greatest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 636 pages
...ED): f 2. To attest (a thing) with some authority, to corroborate, to affirm. Compare, ' What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text.' — Mer. of Ven. III, ii, 79. MALONE : That he proves the common liar, fame, in his case to be a true... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned f mortality. Under searcht, have livers white as niilk; And these assume but valour's excrement To render them redoubted!... | |
 | John W. Mahon, Ellen Macleod Mahon - Comedy - 2002 - 476 pages
...interpretation, Bassanio remarks, "ln religion, / What damned error, hut some soher hrow / Will hless it, and approve it with a text, / Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" (3.2.77-80). The devil is a Jew hecause, as Kott affirms, "The devil always appears in disguise; .... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Jews - 2003 - 156 pages
...corrupt, 75 But being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve...with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? 80 There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. How many cowards,... | |
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So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow... 
