| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 trang
...biting laws. MM i. 4. When law can do no right, Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong. KJ iii. 1. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being...season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? MV iii. 2. Help, master, help ; here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in*the law... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 trang
...young; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Shenstone. TEXT. IN religion What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text. Shakspere. We expect your next Should be no comment, but a text, To tell how modern breasts are vext.... | |
| 1904 - 510 trang
...Europe reeked in the blood of God's children. Well might Shakespeare say, "What damned error, but what some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text; hiding the grossness with fair ornament." Did the truths enunciated by Christ permit of such worship? From whence did the priests of Rome take... | |
| 1927 - 924 trang
...hypocritical quotations from Scripture. We see it in the following lines from The Merchant of Venice: "In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow...a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament." And again: "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness Is like... | |
| William E. Phipps - 1993 - 268 trang
...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... | |
| Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 290 trang
...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... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1995 - 203 trang
...having secured a station, to which he knew so many had aspired. CHAPTER XII The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,...with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? Merchant of Venice Jane entered upon the duties of her new vocation with more energy and interest than... | |
| Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 trang
...can be misapplied. In The Merchant of Venice, Bassanio reflects on the prevalence of law subverted: "In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt / But, being...with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil?" (3.2.75-77). Written materials become a means of subverting righteousness in The Devil's Law-Case:... | |
| Douglas Wilson - 1997 - 66 trang
...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,... | |
| Lloyd Graham - 1991 - 496 trang
...chapter. Let us get behind 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... | |
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