| George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...in the play gives of Gratiano's conversation ; " He speaks an infinite deal of nothing. 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 search4." It is therefore futility in the... | |
| George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...modern times. 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. — Shakspeare. If to do, were as... | |
| David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have ia them, the more noise they make in pouriug it out." 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." There is an Italian proverb which... | |
| David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...with narrow-necked bottlei ; the leti they b*sv • them, the more noitw they make in pouring it out." 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." There is an Italian proverb which... | |
| 1849 - 354 pages
...SECRETARY. " GRATIANO speaks an infinite deal of nothing : more than any man in Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek them all day ere you find them ; and when you have them, they are not worth the search." — Merchant... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1842 - 512 pages
...Again : 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 •11 day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search. Ibid. In the following... | |
| Baptists - 1840 - 708 pages
...their preacher as Bassanio said of Gratiano, " He speaks an infinite deal of nothing ; 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 found them, they are not worth the search," the consequence is, the hearers... | |
| Christian Bouscaren - English language - 1966 - 260 pages
...dismissed me. 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. SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice... | |
| Martin Roth - New York (State) - 1968 - 142 pages
...R[ike]r, in the character of Gratiano. "Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing — his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you may search all day ere you find them; and then they are not worth the search." " No. 9. The same ludicrous... | |
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