 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?  Merchant of Venice. As you like it - Page 73by William Shakespeare - 1785Full view - About this book
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 pages
...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...assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts; How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 1993 - 268 pages
...with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart." A friend of Antonio echoes that insight: "In religion, what damned error but some sober brow...approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"17 Jesus must also have found sentiments expressed in other psalms to be contrary to acceptable... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 279 pages
...the right casket: 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...with a text Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? (III.ii.75-80) These lines concentrate for us the full context in which the play's action occurs, the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season 'd with a gracious voice, ll not me of fear! FRIAR LAURENCE. Hold; get you gone,...letters to thy lord. JULIET. Love give me strength! How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - 1997 - 66 pages
...all know that isolated verses fit with anything. Shakespeare put it well in the Merchant of Venice: "In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow...a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished in principle at all from liberalism,... | |
 | Lloyd Graham - 1991 - 496 pages
...chapter. Let us get behind 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 - 1989 - 1286 pages
...with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, ve edge unto the swords That make such waste in brief mortality. Under How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 242 pages
...with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned...assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 156 pages
...with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 75 But being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned...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,... | |
 | Albert Joseph Mary Shamon - 2003 - 124 pages
...than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text (of Scripture), hiding the grossness with fair ornament? After having saved the life of the merchant... | |
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