The Merchant of VeniceHoughton, Mifflin, 1892 - 111 pages |
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Bass Bellario Belmont better bond casket cents choose chooseth Christian court daughter devil Dictionary doth Duke English Enter PORTIA Exeunt Exit eyes fair Fair ladies father five accents fool forfeit fortune gentle give Gobbo Gratiano Hamlet hast hath hear heart heaven honour Jacob's staff Jessica Jew's Jew's house judge justice lady Laun linen covers Longfellow's look Lord Bassanio Lorenzo madam meaning Merchant of Venice mercy merry mind of love Nerissa never night Note oath Othello Ovid Padua phrase play poet poet's PORTIA's house pray thee Prince ring room in PORTIA's Salan SALANIO Salar SALARINO Saler Salerio SCENE Shakespeare Shakespearian shalt Shylock soul speak speech swear sweet syllable tell thou Three thousand ducats to-night Troilus and Cressida Tubal unto verbs verse Webster's Dictionary wife WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE word young
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Page 89 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 103 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood ; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 65 - 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 Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 60 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 103 - Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls, But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. [Enter MUSICIANS] Come, ho! and wake Diana with a dream: With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear, And draw her home with music.
Page 65 - 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 Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 85 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
Page 89 - And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 25 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into.
Page 12 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.