| George Campbell - 1840 - 450 ページ
...in the play gives of Gratiano's conversation ; " He speaks an infinite deal 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 search4." It is therefore futility in the... | |
| George Willson - 1840 - 298 ページ
...modern times. 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. — Shakspeare. If to do, were as... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 ページ
...with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have ia them, the more noise they make in pouriug it out." 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." There is an Italian proverb which... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 ページ
...with narrow-necked bottlei ; the leti they b*sv • them, the more noitw they make in pouring it out." 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." There is an Italian proverb which... | |
| 1849 - 354 ページ
...SECRETARY. " GRATIANO speaks an infinite deal of nothing : more than any man in Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek them all day ere you find them ; and when you have them, they are not worth the search." — Merchant... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1842 - 512 ページ
...Again : Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice-. his reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek •11 day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search. Ibid. In the following... | |
| 1840 - 708 ページ
...their preacher as Bassanio said of Gratiano, " He speaks an infinite deal 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 found them, they are not worth the search," the consequence is, the hearers... | |
| Christian Bouscaren - 1966 - 260 ページ
...dismissed me. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are 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. SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice... | |
| Martin Roth - 1968 - 142 ページ
...R[ike]r, in the character of Gratiano. "Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing — his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you may search all day ere you find them; and then they are not worth the search." " No. 9. The same ludicrous... | |
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