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" Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live. "
Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the ... - Page 345
by William Smyth - 1854
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A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

S. P. Cerasano - Drama - 2004 - 228 pages
...and all! Pardon not that! 370 You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. PORTIA What mercy can you render him, Antonio? GRATIANO A halter, gratis.60 Nothing else, for God's...
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At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in ...

Richard F. Nation - Business & Economics - 2005 - 289 pages
...destiny. Arguing for laws to protect debtors in the wake of the 1819 depression, "Hector" asserted, "You take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live." 30 As late as 1850, a Hoosier could argue, against the claims of usurers, that "an inalienable right...
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Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology

Julia Reinhard Lupton - Religion - 2005 - 291 pages
...life and all! Pardon not that! You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house. You take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. (4.1.372-75) Shylock will not let the scandal disappear so quickly. Still in shock from the sheer force...
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Helen Keller: Selected Writings

Helen Keller - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 334 pages
...see that to own the worker's tools is to own the worker. In "The Merchant of Venice" Shylock cried, "You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live." It was a moneylender who said that. A workman can say it with better justice and with warmer appeal...
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Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness

Eliza McGraw - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 216 pages
...whom, by the way, I take to be a very shrewd and sensible fellow, and a greatly ill-used rascal — 'You take my life / When you do take the means whereby I live!"' (434). Simms uses Shylock atypically, since Shakespeare's Jewish merchant is often held up as an example...
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Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and ...

Yvonne Bruce - History - 2005 - 296 pages
...life and all, pardon not that: You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. (4.1.374-77) At this point Portia turns to Antonio, inquiring after the mercy he can show Shylock....
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Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet

Maria Mudd Ruth - Nature - 2005 - 316 pages
...Douglasfir. The same image appears before each of the five sections, but the quotation beneath it changes. "You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. " — William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice "Every entity is only to be understood in terms of...
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Shakespeare's Comedy of Love

Alexander Leggatt - Drama - 2005 - 296 pages
...and all, pardon not that. You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. (iv. i. 369-72) We expect that from Shylock; but even Antonio can say, when he learns from Portia that...
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Great News!: We've Sold the Company

Jim Woodward, Chuck Philpott, Susan Gibson - Business & Economics - 2006 - 326 pages
...procrastinate. (The only thing that I ever received from procrastination was immediate satisfaction.) "You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live" Shakespeare wrote in, The Merchant of Venice. Today, there is not much job security no matter what...
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Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History

Eli Lederhendler - History - 2006 - 400 pages
...University of California Press, 2001. 385 pp. house when you do take the prop/That doth sustain my house; you take my life/ When you do take the means whereby I live" (Act IV, Scene 1). Shylock's confusion of material with spiritual value has attracted some attention...
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