"The Merchant of Venice" as an Exponent of Industrial Ethicséditeur non identifié, 1899 - 349 pages |
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ancient Roman Antonio appeal to Shylock appear Aristotle artistic insight Bassanio brilliant casket charity or mercy Christendom Christian ideal claims comedy commercial anxiety common contrast critics daughter degradation of industrial demeanor dialectic dramatic interest ducats dustrial earnest embodies ennui exhibition exponent exposition fact father fitness friends friendship gain gaping pig give her name grander device Gratiano ground of justice hath higher morality higher plea industrial morality industrial occupation industrial success interpreted Jewish race Julius Cæsar legitimate life-weariness little Jessica McGill University mercantile Merchant of Venice mind mood moral character moral sentiment nature nobler noblest old tale old tales parasites philo play pleads plot poet poet's idea poet's purpose poetic art Portia racial regard to Antonio's reply represents Salarino scene sentiment of humanity Shakespeare significance sophic spirit splendor subordinate summum terior thee thou thought and sentiment trade trial truth Venetian vindicated wealth whim womanly nobleness
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Page 335 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 340 - I not, More than a lodged hate, and a certain loathing, I bear Antonio, that I follow thus A losing suit against him. Are you answered ? Bassanio.
Page 340 - 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!
Page 334 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 335 - 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 334 - 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 336 - I'll lend you thus much money? Ant. I am as like to call thee so again, To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends ; for when did friendship take A breed of barren metal of his friend ? But lend it rather to thine enemy, Who, if he break, thou may'st with better face Exact the penalty.
Page 334 - Such a mood may well be described as sadness in the old sense of the term, especially if the etymologists are right in the theory that sad is primarily applied to one who is sated with the boons of life. But as the mood is not based on any positive suffering, as it arises rather from elevation above the common sorrows as well as the common joys of men, it will often appear groundless, inexplicable, even to its victim.
Page 346 - But the fact that the ideas of bare justice are inadequate for the guidance of moral life, proves the necessity of rising to a larger principle of conduct ; and it is the exhibition of this necessity that gives a glory to the trial-scene. Here Portia shows at her best. There is, for her task, a pathetic significance in the fact that she will not at first believe Shylock to...