 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1799 - 468 pages
...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, and 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 436 pages
...tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Eaff. Gratiano fpeaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...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... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...of nothing. 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." It is therefore futility in the thought, and not perspicuity in the language, which is the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 104 pages
...neat's tongue dry'd, and a maid not vendible. (Exeunt GRA. a^LoREN. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Bass. Gratiano fpeaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...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. Ant. Well; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
...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. Ant . Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 386 pages
...tongue dry'd, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. and LOREN. Antb. Is that any thing now ? Raff. Gratiano fpeaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff ; you ftiall feek all day ere you find them ; and when you have them, they are not %vorth the fearch. Antb.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 452 pages
...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. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Ant. Well; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 456 pages
...part of his discourse is not any thing. Tyrwhitt. 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. Ant. Well; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 576 pages
...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. Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That... | |
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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. 
