 | Aaron Landau - 2004 - 200 ページ
...example, when she replies to Nerissa's moralizing with the Utopian vision of a world without poverty: "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces" (1.2.11-2). A similarly anti hierarchical tone seems to underwrite the very insistence, in relation... | |
 | Pierre-Richard Agénor - 2004 - 794 ページ
...the coefficient /3 remains, however, a matter of debate. Chapter 14 Trade and Labor Market Reforms If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces ... I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own... | |
 | Laurie Maguire - 2003 - 260 ページ
...individuals rather than society, and of flawed individuals at that. As Portia acknowledges in act 1, "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces" (1.2.12-14). There is something remarkably Thatcherite in this concluding vision of individuals rather... | |
 | Syd Pritchard - 2005 - 149 ページ
...T'have seen what I have seen, See what I see! [Hamlet III i 160] Pupil shares teacher's frustration If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, And poor men's cottages princes' palaces. [Merchant Of Venice I ii 1 1 ] / shall th 'effect of this good lesson keep As watchman to my heart.... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 ページ
...profound, that they have passed into familiar and daily application, with all the force of proverbs. If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.... | |
 | Dean Esslinger - 2005 - 132 ページ
...on: The law of incidence and reflection. PARSING 1. Parse all the words in the following sentence: If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces. PHYSIOLOGY 1. Describe the aponeurosis and state the advantages and disadvantages of its flexibility.... | |
 | R. W. McNeel - 2005 - 157 ページ
...Shakespeare expresses the same thought in The Merchant of Venice, when one of his characters says, "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." That this weakness of human nature is of long standing makes it particularly difficult to overcome.... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) - 2007 - 560 ページ
...(1.2.17-18). Shakespeare's most famous heroine, Portia, speaks to Nerissa in this scene; the speech begins "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." 31 James Baldwin also admired Shakespeare's efforts "to defeat all labels and complicate all battles,"... | |
 | Derek Bok - 2006 - 430 ページ
...to ignore their better judgment and behave improperly. As Portia observes in The Merchant of Venice, "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages prince's palaces. . . . I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the... | |
 | Miriam Weinmann - 2007 - 57 ページ
...spöttisch auf Nerissa's „Moralpredigt" und hält ihre eigene Moral auf witzige Art und Weise dagegen. ("If to do were as easy as to know what were good...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces, ..." I, 2, 12- 14) Die beiden kommen auch auf die bisherigen Bewerber um ihre Hand zu sprechen. Dabei... | |
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