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" Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. "
Say It Like Shakespeare: How to Give a Speech Like Hamlet, Persuade Like ... - Page 147
by Thomas Leech - 2001 - 313 pages
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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...''..•' "What say* King Bollngbroke ?» SHAKSPBARE. " His reasons are like two grains of mustard seed, hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day...when you' have them, they are not worth the search." .hO' ' •.ii., f. '•,,". ! Jr ^'•i^"' SHAKSPEARE. •• f : . i\ ici • . i ** I ALLOW his fine...
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The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus ...

John Bull - 1825 - 782 pages
...Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, mon than any man in all Venice : his reasons are as t« grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff ; you...shall seek all day ere you find them : and when you but them, they are not worth the search. SCOTTICISMS. ч Step in to the ßrc, (sometimes pronounced...
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The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...that anv thing now? Baft. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, •lore than any man in all horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal...And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very li yon find them ; and, wbeoyon have them, they are not worth the search. in'. Well ; tell me now, what...
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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 396 pages
...Bolingbroke ?" . SHAKSPEARE. *..".•. ' . ' •' His reasons are like two grains of mustard seed, hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them; and •when you tare them, they are not worth the search." .• W*tf/ SHAKSPEARE. • .;.... .... • i . " I ALLOW...
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Improvement Era, Volume 7, Issue 1

1904 - 510 pages
...become like Gratiano, the ancient proser, who spoke an infinite deal of nothing; and whose reasons were as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff;...when you have them they are not worth the search." Truth brings unity, and unity strength and power. Let us all work for the advancement of truth, that...
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Early Letters

Thomas Carlyle - 816 pages
...speak with ; he says " an infinite deal of nothing ; his reasons are as two grains of wheat hidden in two bushels of chaff ; you shall seek all day ere...when you have them, they are not worth the search." But enough of him. Our old college cronies have left Edinburgh nearly to a man. Waugh still continues...
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Verständigungsprobleme in Shakespeares Dramen

Hans-Jürgen Weckermann - 1978 - 380 pages
...wird: Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are äs two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you...when you have them they are not worth the search. (MV I. i. 114-118) Diese Bemerkung Bassanios hebt in aller Deutlichkeit den Gebrauch von Sprache um...
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Lectures to My Students

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1954 - 452 pages
...infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : his reasons are as two grains of wheat hidden in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere...when you have them they are not worth the search." Rousing appeals to the affections are excellent, but if they are not backed up by instruction they...
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Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the Comedies

Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...vendible. (Exeunt Gratiano and Lorenzo) Ant. It is that anything now. Bass. Gratiano speaks an inf1nite deal of nothing (more than any man in Venice), his...when you have them, they are not worth the search, (1. 1. 79-118) There is, perhaps, a certain irony in so much talk about too much talk. And Gratiano's...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...that any thing now? BASSANIO. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the ANTONIO. Well; tell me now, what lady is the same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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