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" 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. "
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Aphorisms from Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...speak an infinite deal of nothing. The Reasons of such are as two grains of wheat bid in two bushels of chaff. You shall seek all day ere you find them...when you have them they are not worth the search. 2411. v.xvt.'SCf.— Indiscreet. 2. Many have much disabled their Estate By rashly shewing a more'swelling...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...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,...when you have them, they are not worth the search. . Anth. Well, tell me now, what lady is the same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...reasons are as two grains of wheat, hid in two bushels of chaff"; N 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 lady is the same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 76

1814 - 1032 pages
...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...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*...
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Shakspeare's himself again; or the language of the poet asserted

Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...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...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...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...
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Othello. Merchant of Venice. Third Satire of Horace

Robert Deverell - 1816 - 312 pages
...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 lady is the same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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Elements of criticism [by H. Home].

Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...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,...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....
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Curialia Miscellanea; Or, Anecdotes of Old Times: Regal, Noble, Gentilitial ...

Samuel Pegge - 1818 - 464 pages
...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,...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...
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