The Merchant of Venice: Edited with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Glossary by Thomas Marc Parrott ...Henry Holt, 1926 - 220 pages |
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Page vii
... play we have pretty plain sailing ; being left with three not very dissimilar versions amid which to steer , and now enabled by labour and ingenuity of previous students to arrange them strictly in order of merit . They are two Quartos ...
... play we have pretty plain sailing ; being left with three not very dissimilar versions amid which to steer , and now enabled by labour and ingenuity of previous students to arrange them strictly in order of merit . They are two Quartos ...
Page ix
... play . Then , much as in our play , the grateful Giannetto visits her with the proffer of a hundred thousand ducats for her conduct of the case . Portia will take no fee at all save on an afterthought that ring on your finger ...
... play . Then , much as in our play , the grateful Giannetto visits her with the proffer of a hundred thousand ducats for her conduct of the case . Portia will take no fee at all save on an afterthought that ring on your finger ...
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... play- wright , whoever he was , cast back to medieval legend for another old lover's test , which he could easily borrow from the Gesta Romanorum , or indeed from anywhere -the test of the three Caskets . More shall be said pre- sently ...
... play- wright , whoever he was , cast back to medieval legend for another old lover's test , which he could easily borrow from the Gesta Romanorum , or indeed from anywhere -the test of the three Caskets . More shall be said pre- sently ...
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... play ; and Gosson's description of it may be taken , even probably , to cover the casket - scenes and Shylock's bond in some ' original ' derived from Il Pecorone . But what can that speculation , however likely , amount to for any ...
... play ; and Gosson's description of it may be taken , even probably , to cover the casket - scenes and Shylock's bond in some ' original ' derived from Il Pecorone . But what can that speculation , however likely , amount to for any ...
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... play : for Shakespeare , more than any dramatist , could defeat definition among tragedy , comedy and romance ... plays we know , as accu- rately as may be , his sources - ask how he did it . IV He did it almost always , if one may use ...
... play : for Shakespeare , more than any dramatist , could defeat definition among tragedy , comedy and romance ... plays we know , as accu- rately as may be , his sources - ask how he did it . IV He did it almost always , if one may use ...
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Page 43 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? 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 1 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page xvii - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page xiii - 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.
Page 5 - 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 70 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, 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...
Page 69 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page xxv - So may the outward shows be least themselves ; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil...
Page 83 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 69 - The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 6 - Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio — I love thee, and it is my love that speaks — There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...