 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 หน้า
...world is still decciv'd with onmment. In law, what plea »o tainted and corrupt, But being scftson'd with a gracious voice, Obscures "the show of evil!...Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossncss with fuir ornament 1 There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on its outward... | |
 | 1876 - 602 หน้า
...ut there is this parallel passage in Shakspeare's M -reliant f Venice, iii. 2, 77, el teq. : — " In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow...approve it with a text. Hiding the grossness with fair ornanv nt ? " FKEI>K. RULE. The lines quoted by FIRST GUN— " There 's lines from John Milton," ic.,... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 หน้า
...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?...with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts; How many cowards,... | |
 | Marc Shell - 1993 - 264 หน้า
...learns to say that, or act as though, he dismisses them. So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law,...with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? (3- 2- 73-77) Bassanio thus criticizes deceivers who use ornament to their evil purpose, perhaps as... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 1993 - 268 หน้า
...with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart." A friend of Antonio echoes that insight: "In religion, what damned error but some sober brow...approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"17 Jesus must also have found sentiments expressed in other psalms to be contrary to acceptable... | |
 | Rodney R. Jones - 1993 - 224 หน้า
...dismayed to learn that this method of settling disputes had been abolished in 1819. POETIC JUSTICE "In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being...with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?" WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, MERCHANT OF VENICE (HI, it, 74) Poetic justice: a lawyer with his tongue cut out.... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 290 หน้า
...when Bassanio chooses the right casket: In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 หน้า
...world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season 'd Give me, give met O, tell not me of fear! FRIAR LAURENCE....friar with speed To Mantua, with my letters to thy lo There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts: How many cowards,... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - 1997 - 66 หน้า
...all know that isolated verses fit with anything. Shakespeare put it well in the Merchant of Venice: "In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow...a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished in principle at all from liberalism,... | |
 | Stephen Bretzius - 1997 - 180 หน้า
...when, in a wholly other context and on the level of form, Bassanio rejects the gold casket because "In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt / But, being...with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil?" (3.2.75-77), adding: "Look on beauty, / And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight" (88-89). In... | |
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There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts: How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars... 
