 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.  The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes - Page 87by William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann - 1787Full view - About this book
 | George Campbell - 1810 - 360 pages
...deal of nothing. Their 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." To lay down therefore proper canons of sacred criticism, to arrange them according to their... | |
 | 1811 - 592 pages
...through this poem ; but they are like " 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." If Fate have decreed, that a change of ministry must always produce such an inundation of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 580 pages
...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. Ant. Well ; tell mp novy, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 pages
...in all Vcuice: His reasous are as two graius of wheat hid in two hushels of chaff; you mli all seek all day ere you find them; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant, Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same To -whom vuu swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; yoa * Obstinate silence. shall seek all day ere you find them; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...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.Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...nothing. The Reasons of such are as two grains of wheat bid 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. 2411. v.xvt.'SCf.— Indiscreet. 2. Many have much disabled their Estate By rashly shewing... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...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. . Anth. Well, tell me now, what lady is the same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | 1814 - 1032 pages
...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." Vitm of the Present State O/FRANCE. JjlVlNG in France is very cheap, and undoubtedly a person... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...ffian in all Venice : his reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you sh II seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search. Ibid. Tn the following passage a character is completed by a single stroke. Shallow. O the... | |
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