Shakespeare's The Merchant of VeniceScott, Foresman, 1919 - 186 pages |
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Abbott actors Admiral's Men Ansaldo Antonio Arragon Bass Bellario Belmont better blank verse blood bond casket choose chooseth Christian D. G. Rossetti dative daughter devil doth drama dramatist Duke Elizabethan ellipsis English Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fear folio fool forfeit fortune Gesta Romanorum Giannetto give gold Gratiano hast hath hear heart heaven honor Jessica Jew of Malta Jew's judge justice lady Laun Launcelot Gobbo Lord Bassanio Lorenzo Madam master means Merchant of Venice mercy merry mind Miracle Plays Nerissa never night plot Poems Portia Portia's house pound of flesh pray thee prince quartos reading ring room in Portia's Salan Salanio Salar Salarino Saler Salerio scene Shak Shakspere shalt Shylock Signior soul speak story swear sweet tell Tennyson thou Three thousand ducats tonight Tubal unto wife word
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Page 5 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 63 - Shylock, we would have moneys :' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say, ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?
Page 53 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : and yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
Page 60 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 59 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 50 - 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.
Page 53 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 138 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 132 - It must not be ; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'Twill be recorded for a precedent ; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state : it cannot be.
Page 62 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.