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... ... APPENDIX A - THE METRE I 95 159 200 APPENDIX B - THE SOURCES ... 205 APPENDIX C - THE DATE ... 210 APPENDIX D - TOPICS AND QUESTIONS . 213 GLOSSARY . 216 INTRODUCTON . The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's first undisputed.
... ... APPENDIX A - THE METRE I 95 159 200 APPENDIX B - THE SOURCES ... 205 APPENDIX C - THE DATE ... 210 APPENDIX D - TOPICS AND QUESTIONS . 213 GLOSSARY . 216 INTRODUCTON . The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's first undisputed.
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... question is lost , and all we know of it is found in a very brief contemporary description . Stephen Gosson , an Oxford man , who had himself written several plays , published in 1579 a fierce attack upon the theatre en- titled The ...
... question is lost , and all we know of it is found in a very brief contemporary description . Stephen Gosson , an Oxford man , who had himself written several plays , published in 1579 a fierce attack upon the theatre en- titled The ...
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... question is found in his character . Of a melancholy and somewhat lethargic temperament , his ideal of the ancient Roman honor was one of resignation and passive endur- ance . On the news of his losses , rather than humiliate himself by ...
... question is found in his character . Of a melancholy and somewhat lethargic temperament , his ideal of the ancient Roman honor was one of resignation and passive endur- ance . On the news of his losses , rather than humiliate himself by ...
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... question of my uttermost , Than if you had made waste of all I have : Then do but say to me what I should do , That in your knowledge may by me be done , And I am prest unto it : therefore , speak . Bass . In Belmont is a lady richly ...
... question of my uttermost , Than if you had made waste of all I have : Then do but say to me what I should do , That in your knowledge may by me be done , And I am prest unto it : therefore , speak . Bass . In Belmont is a lady richly ...
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... question make , To have it of my trust , or for my sake . SCENE II . Belmont . A room in Portia's house . Enter Portia and Nerissa . 180 [ Exeunt . Por . By my troth , Nerissa , my little body is aweary of this great world . Ner . You ...
... question make , To have it of my trust , or for my sake . SCENE II . Belmont . A room in Portia's house . Enter Portia and Nerissa . 180 [ Exeunt . Por . By my troth , Nerissa , my little body is aweary of this great world . Ner . You ...
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Page 46 - 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 villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 14 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 89 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 4 - Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 75 - And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, 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 sa'me prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much, To mitigate the justice of thy plea ; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. Shy. My deeds upon my head ! I crave the...
Page 74 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 16 - Shylock, we would have moneys ; " — you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me, as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold. Moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say, " Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 46 - To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew.
Page 13 - Yet his means are in supposition : he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies ; I understand, moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships are but boards, sailors but men ; there be land-rats, and water-rats, water-thieves, and land-thieves ; I mean, pirates ; and then, there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
Page 50 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head ? How begot, how nourished ? Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes, With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell. I'll begin it — Ding, dong, bell.