 | 1798
...faction, as far at least as he could judge from the evidence of the Public Journals, may be compared to " two grains of •wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and ivhenyoubavethem, they arc not-worth the search*." The just application of the foregoing words, will,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Nicholas Rowe - Drama - 1798
...in all Venice : His reafons arc as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff ; you fhall feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. Anth. Well ; tell me now, what lady is the fame, To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1798
...truth in fuch difquifitions is li!;0 ' two grains of wheat in two bufhels of chaff: you (hall feek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the fearch.' Nothing more ftrongly evinces the futility of etymological inquires in the prelent infrance,... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1799
...from the evidence of the Public Journals, may be compared to " two grains of wheat bid in two busheh of chaff '; you shall seek all day ere you find them,...when you have them, they are not worth the search* " The just application of the foregoing words, will, indeed, be manifest to the reader himself, when... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1799
...public journals, may be compared to " two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you mall feek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the fearch." Here he admits, at lead, that he has chiefly felected his materials from the productions of... | |
 | 1799 - 524 pages
...coujthat ,he, pncc, at Magdalen College, Oxford, had it explained to him, that .the famous ; passage '.' His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, " has no sort of reference to verbal criticism 10 / •• . i '.' I i * " "» ' \ ? t •• , . RECOMMENDATORY'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1800
...in all Venice : His reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two buihels of chaff; you fliall feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this fame To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801
...Bassanio 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...when " you have them, they are not worth the search." It is therefore futility in the thought, and not perspicuity in the language, which is the fault of... | |
![The Merchant of Venice, a comedy, altered [by R. Valpy] from Shakespeare, as ...](http://bks8.books.google.co.uk/books?id=tZ4NAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The Merchant of Venice, a comedy, altered [by R. Valpy] from Shakespeare, as ...") | William Shakespeare - 1802
...in all Venice : His reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two buftiels of chaff; you mall feek all day ere you find them ; and when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this fame, To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - Literary Criticism - 1799
...Public Journals, may be compared to *' two grains of wheat hid in two bu/hels of chaff ; youjhattfeek all day ere you find them, and when you have them., they are not wertlt the fear ch*" The juft application of the foregoing words will indeed be manifeft to the reader... | |
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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. 
