 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pagine
...within the modest limits of order. TWELFTH NIGHT, i. 3. ORNAMENT. The world is still deceiv'd with ornament ; ***** There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. MERCHANT op VENICE, iii. 2. ORPHANS. That his bones, When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings,... | |
 | William Gresley - 1843 - 288 pagine
...influence of human systems, which have since impaired its excellency. CHAPTER XV. In religion What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text 1 SHAKSPEARK : The Merchant of Venice. THE FANATIC. THE more I saw of Mr. Manwaring, the more cause... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 279 pagine
...corrupt But being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve...with a text Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? (III.ii.75-80) These lines concentrate for us the full context in which the play's action occurs, the... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - 1995 - 1402 pagine
...tainted and corrupted, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil; what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text?"61 This was enough to frighten the peyotists, who organized formally as the Native American Church... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pagine
...corrupt, But, being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned e, be strong and prosperous In this resolve: I'll...letters to thy lord. JULIET. Love give me strength! How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - 1997 - 66 pagine
...verses fit with anything. Shakespeare put it well in the Merchant of Venice: "In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve...a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished in principle at all from liberalism,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagine
...the eyes. With gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. 10401 The Merchant of Venice There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 10402 The Merchant of Venice The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 1999 - 648 pagine
...corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show ofevil? In religion, What damnd error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding thegrossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark ofvirtue on his outward... | |
 | Lloyd Graham - 1991 - 496 pagine
...the hoax that we too may partake of "the tree of knowledge." 3 The Serpent In religion what damned error but some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text. SHAKESPEARE. Asa molder of religious thought, the third chapter of Genesis has been, perhaps, the greatest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 636 pagine
...ED): f 2. To attest (a thing) with some authority, to corroborate, to affirm. Compare, ' What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text.' — Mer. of Ven. III, ii, 79. MALONE : That he proves the common liar, fame, in his case to be a true... | |
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So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow... 
