The Merchant of VeniceBlackie & Son, 1897 - 142 pages |
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Page xvii
... thoughts . The Jews in Shakespeare's Venice were allowed a synagogue to worship in [ ] ; they were obliged to wear a distinctive dress , and , no doubt , lived ( both by their own choice and by compulsion ) in a quarter of their own ...
... thoughts . The Jews in Shakespeare's Venice were allowed a synagogue to worship in [ ] ; they were obliged to wear a distinctive dress , and , no doubt , lived ( both by their own choice and by compulsion ) in a quarter of their own ...
Page xxiv
... thought to rest not on spiritual conviction but on obstinate temper , Shylock's becoming a Christian would be regarded as a recovery from sullenness . The remission of half his goods would appear generous . The absorption of so formid ...
... thought to rest not on spiritual conviction but on obstinate temper , Shylock's becoming a Christian would be regarded as a recovery from sullenness . The remission of half his goods would appear generous . The absorption of so formid ...
Page xxv
... thought in those days - under the ruling of Providence , and so far as it was matter of choice , would be such as to test the insight and sincerity of her lovers . Thus was Portia , hardly yet out of her girlhood , left heiress of ...
... thought in those days - under the ruling of Providence , and so far as it was matter of choice , would be such as to test the insight and sincerity of her lovers . Thus was Portia , hardly yet out of her girlhood , left heiress of ...
Page xxvi
... thought and action gives to Portia an almost formidable air , not diminished by the trained skill with which she approaches the discussion of an abstract principle . In these respects she is unlike many others of Shakespeare's women ...
... thought and action gives to Portia an almost formidable air , not diminished by the trained skill with which she approaches the discussion of an abstract principle . In these respects she is unlike many others of Shakespeare's women ...
Page xxxi
... thought at all , she may have thought her father would not miss what he never wore nor spent . She talks very much too freely to Launcelot Gobbo . Her natural recklessness of temper appears from the style in which she makes the money ...
... thought at all , she may have thought her father would not miss what he never wore nor spent . She talks very much too freely to Launcelot Gobbo . Her natural recklessness of temper appears from the style in which she makes the money ...
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Abbott Antonio Bass Bassanio Belmont Blank Verse bond caskets choose chooseth Christian cloth Compare court Crown 8vo daughter derived doth ducats Duke E. K. Chambers English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes F. S. Boas F'cap 8vo fair father fear feeling flesh fool forfeit fortune French give gold Gratiano hath hear honour Jerome Harrison Jessica Jew's Julius Cæsar lady Laun letter live look Lord Bassanio Lorenzo Macbeth master means Merchant of Venice mercy metre Nerissa never night passage peize phrase play Portia pray thee Prince of Morocco prose rhyme rhythm Richard III ring Salan Salanio Salar SALARINO scene sense Shakespeare ship Shylock Signior soul speak spirit story swear sweet syllables tell thou thought three thousand ducats to-night trochee Tubal Twelfth Night Variorum Edition verb wife word
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Page 35 - 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.
Page 42 - The reason is, your spirits are attentive ; 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 turned to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music.
Page 22 - I am a Jew. 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 ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge 1 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 3 - 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 36 - Therefore, prepare thee to cut off the flesh. Shed thou no blood ; nor cut thou less nor more But just a pound of flesh : if thou tak'st more, Or less, than a just pound — be it but so much As makes it light or heavy in the substance, Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple — nay, if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair — Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate ! Gra.
Page xxxiii - 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 xxxi - 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 3 - 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 for barren metal of his friend ? But lend it rather to thine enemy, Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face Exact the penalty.
Page xxxi - Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Page 22 - To bait fish withal : if it will feed nothing else it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies! and what's his reason? I am a Jew ! Hath not a Jew eyes?