 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 312 pages
...noticed; and the line next following, to the well-known occurrence of dogs' barking at the moon. 171 Anth. Is that any thing, now ? Bass. Gratiano speaks an...two bushels of chaff; you shall seek, all day, ere youjind them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. Anth. Well, tell me now, what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 pages
...not vendible. Ant. is that any thing now ? [Exeunt GRA. and LOREIT. Bass. Gratiano speaks an iniinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice :...when you have them, they are not worth the search. .•)i.'. Well; tell me now, what lady is this same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...1. . 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...when you have them they are not worth the search. Ibid. Shallow. O the mad days that I have spept; and to see how many of mine old acquaintance are dead.... | |
 | Samuel Pegge - Anecdotes - 1818 - 464 pages
...investigation ; and what follows will, I suspect, be thought not unlike Gratiano's reasons ; viz. " As two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff;...when you have them, they are not worth the search*." But, as the History of Coaches in general, and particularly of Hackney Coaches, has never been drawn... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...Again : Gratiano speaks an infmite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : his reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you...when you have them they are not worth the search. Ibid. In the following passage a character is completed by a single stroke. Shallow. O the mad days... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 pages
...Bassanio in the play gays of Gratiano's conversation, 'they speak an infinite deal of nothing. Their reasons are as two grains of wheat, hid in two bushels...seek all day ere you find them ; and when you have theoi they are пot worth the search.'" But still there are some of very great value. We refer the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 pages
...tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRATIANQ and LORENZO. ANT. Is that any thing now 7 ? BASS. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing,...the search. ANT. Well ; tell me now, what lady is the same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, * So quarto R. the folio and quarto H.fare you well.... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...He hoards up an abundance of second-hand witticisms, and " speaks an infinite deal of nothing ;" " His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two...when you have them, they are not worth the search." If he happens to fall in the company of men of learning, his vanity then contends with his insignificancy.... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...1,041 50 406 500 100 16,254,534 8,525,252 270,908 142,087 24,779,786 412,996 CONVERSATION. " Grmtiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any...in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere yon find them ; and, when yon have them, they are not worth the starch." SHAKSPEARE. MAN being by nature... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...Antonio, I do know of these, That therefore only are reputed wise, For saying nothing. • LOaUAClTY. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search. MEDIOCRITY. For aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with... | |
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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. 
