| Robert Deverell - 1816 - 312 pages
...now ? Bass. 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 youjind them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. Anth. Well, tell me now, what... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...1. . Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than ,any man in all Venice: his reasons are 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. Ibid. Shallow. O the mad days that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 376 pages
...LORENZO. Bass. 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. Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady... | |
| Samuel Pegge - Anecdotes - 1818 - 464 pages
...investigation ; and what follows will, I suspect, be thought not unlike Gratiano's reasons ; viz. " 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*." But, as the History of Coaches... | |
| Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 pages
...in the play gays of Gratiano's conversation, 'they speak an infinite 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 theoi they are пot worth the search.'" But still there are some of very... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...? Bass. 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. . Ant. Well ; tell me now, what... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...Again : Gratiano speaks an infmite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : his reasons are 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. Ibid. In the following passage a character... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 pages
...be said of the parts that are selected, that, like Gratiano's reasons, they are ' as two grains of 4 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 VOL. XI. NS 3 A ' the search.' The autograph of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...? BASS. 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. ANT. Well ; tell me now, what lady... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...? Bass. Gratianio speaks an inf,nite 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. Ant. Well ; tell me now what lady... | |
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