The Merchant of VeniceGlobe School Book Company, 1900 - 137 páginas |
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... appear to us to be the singular , in the unfamiliar force often given to prepositions . It does not seem necessary to state formally in the notes that when an Elizabethan said on he sometimes meant of , or that when he said of he ...
... appear to us to be the singular , in the unfamiliar force often given to prepositions . It does not seem necessary to state formally in the notes that when an Elizabethan said on he sometimes meant of , or that when he said of he ...
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... appear to us mysteriously awkward . Yet it would seem to most hearers a strange affectation , if , in reading Shakespeare aloud at the present day , we read " whe'r , " " whi'r , " " ra'r " ; and it is simpler to fall back , in this ...
... appear to us mysteriously awkward . Yet it would seem to most hearers a strange affectation , if , in reading Shakespeare aloud at the present day , we read " whe'r , " " whi'r , " " ra'r " ; and it is simpler to fall back , in this ...
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... appears that in London Shakespeare soon formed a con- nection with the theater , as an actor and also as an adapter of old plays . It was not very long before he began to pro- duce plays of his own . It used to be generally believed ...
... appears that in London Shakespeare soon formed a con- nection with the theater , as an actor and also as an adapter of old plays . It was not very long before he began to pro- duce plays of his own . It used to be generally believed ...
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... appear to be either one of the last plays of the First Period , or one of the first plays of the Second Period . Now the Second Period , 1596 to 1601 , is Shakespeare's sunny summer - time of comedy — a season so full of brightness that ...
... appear to be either one of the last plays of the First Period , or one of the first plays of the Second Period . Now the Second Period , 1596 to 1601 , is Shakespeare's sunny summer - time of comedy — a season so full of brightness that ...
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... appears to be Shakespeare's , Cymbeline , The Tempest , and The Winter's Tale . The fifth is the English historical play , Henry VIII . , a part of which was probably written by John Fletcher . It is as if we had been passing through ...
... appears to be Shakespeare's , Cymbeline , The Tempest , and The Winter's Tale . The fifth is the English historical play , Henry VIII . , a part of which was probably written by John Fletcher . It is as if we had been passing through ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbott accent anapest Antonio appears Arragon Bass Bassanio Bellario Belmont better bond casket choose chooseth Christian Compare daughter doth Duke editors Elizabethan EUPHUISTIC Exeunt Exit eyes fair father flesh Folio fool fortune Furness give Gobbo gold Gratiano hast hath hear heart heaven honour Introduction Jessica Jew of Malta Jew's judgement justice lady Laun look Lord Bassanio Lorenzo madam master meaning Merchant of Venice mercy merry metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream mind Morocco Nazarite Nerissa never note on Act oath pause peize play Portia PORTIA's house pray thee present prince Quarto Rialto Richard Grant White ring Salan Salanio Salar Salarino SCENE sense Shakespeare Shylock Signior soul speak speech story swear sweet syllable tell thou Three thousand ducats to-night trimeter Troilus and Cressida Tubal unaccented withal word young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 41 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Página 4 - 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.
Página 9 - 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.
Página 69 - Tarry a little; — there is something else. — This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; The words expressly are a pound of flesh; Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Página 13 - 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.
Página 13 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. 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.
Página 9 - 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...
Página 66 - 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.
Página 42 - The curse never fell upon our nation till now ; I never felt it till now. — Two thousand ducats in that ; and other precious, precious jewels. — I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear ! 'Would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin ! No news of them ? — Why, so ; — and I know not what's spent in the search.
Página 77 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood ; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...