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. The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 132by George Campbell - 1801Full view - About this book
| 1814 - 1032 lehte
...edition. — — " Gratiano speaks an in" finitt deal of nothing, more than any man ** in all Venice : his reasons are as two " grains of wheat hid in two...when you have them, " they are not worth the search." Vitm of the Present State O/FRANCE. JjlVlNG in France is very cheap, and undoubtedly a person of mo*... | |
| Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 lehte
...said to b« "as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; yon shall seek all day ere vou tiud them, and when you have them they are not worth the search." In a word, these ineptia, these nothings, are scarcely to be tolerated here. But an Editor who could... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1816 - 312 lehte
...any thing, 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... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 lehte
...any ffian in all Venice : his reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you sh II seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search. Ibid. Tn the following passage a character is completed by a single stroke. Shallow. O the mad days... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 lehte
...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...when you have them they are not worth the search. Ibid. Shallow. O the mad days that I have spept; and to see how many of mine old acquaintance are dead.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 376 lehte
...GRATIANO and 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...when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, ' That you to-day... | |
| Samuel Pegge - 1818 - 464 lehte
...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;...when you have them, they are not worth the search*." But, as the History of Coaches in general, and particularly of Hackney Coaches, has never been drawn... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 lehte
...any thing 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...when you have them, they are not worth the search. . Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 lehte
...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...when you have them they are not worth the search. Ibid. In the following passage a character is completed by a single stroke. Shallow. O the mad days... | |
| Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 lehte
...Bassanio 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...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 great value. We refer the... | |
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