 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - American literature - 1854 - 268 pages
...cases seem to require. To the board of visitors, I would refer the motto above quoted : " The quality of mercy is not strained : It droppeth as the gentle...TWICE blessed ; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.1'1 Therefore take what you can, and be merciful. I would recommend an asylum to be provided... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Universalism - 1854 - 202 pages
...his just due, even though it is the pound of flesh nearest the heart. Portia replies : " The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle...twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 pages
...within his danger, do you not ? ( To Antonio.) Ant. Ay, so he says. Por. Do you confess the bond 1 Ant. I do. Por. Then must the Jew be merciful. Shy....twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1855 - 598 pages
...given to you — not grudgingly, but with an open hand ; for the quality of benevolence, like that of mercy, "Is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle...twice blessed, It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." * Mr. Prentiss was just at this time in a no unfitting mood to make such a touching appeal.... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...as the night the day, Thou canst not, then, be false to any man. SBAKSPEABB. 30. MERCY. THE quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth as the gentle...twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...overcome evil ' with good. There is no 6ther way." 6. MERCY.— Shakspeare. B. 1564, d. 1616. The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle...twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest ' in the mightiest ; it becomes | The throned monarch ' better than his... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...mother. Act iv. Sc. 1. What ! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice ? Act iv. Sc. 1. The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle...twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. Merchant of Venice — Continued. Act iv. Sc. 1. A Daniel come to judgment. Act iv. Sc.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 618 pages
...as you do proceed. — You stand within his danger, do you not ? \To Antonio. Ant. Ay, so he says. Por. Do you confess the bond ? Ant. I do. Por. Then...I ? tell me that. Por. 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 374 pages
...as you do proceed. — You stand within his danger,1 do you not ? [to Antonio. Ant. Ay, so he says. Por. Do you confess the bond ? Ant. I do. Por. Then...I ? tell me that. Por. The quality of mercy is not strain'd : It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 1 Reach or control. Upon the place beneath :... | |
 | Annie Emma Challice - 1857 - 440 pages
...which reached them, for evidence of her deeds in a distant land ; but into such columns " The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth as the gentle...twice blessed : It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." But, it does not often find its way, willingly, into newspapers. So they could only hope... | |
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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. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his... 
