 | William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann - 1787
...in all Venice : His reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you fhall feek all day ere you find them •, and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. Anth. Well ; tell me now, what lady is the fame, To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1787 - 470 pages
...in all Venice : his reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you (hall feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. Merchant of Venice, A. i, S. i. If to do, were as eafy as to know what were good to do, chapels... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1787
...in all Venice : His reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you fhall feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. Antb. Well ; tell me now, what lady is the fame, To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788
...man in all Venice : his reafons are two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you fhall feek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the fearch. Ibid. In In the following pafiage a character is completed by a fingle ftroke. Shallow. Q the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790
...am not altogether an afs. two grains of wheat hid in two bulhels of chaff"; you (hall feck all if] ere you find them, and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch." MAT.ONF. 6 1 nmtpt challenge ef tbit latten kiltie .•] Piftol, feeing Slender fuch a Him,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793
...in all Venice : His reafons arc as two grains of wheat hid in two buftiels of chaff; you (hall feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. ANT. Well; tell me now, what lady is this fame To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1796
...man in all Venice : his reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you mall feek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. The Merchant of Venice, AJ Sc. I. LOVE. Things bafe and vile, holding no quantity, Love can... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1811
...poor gentleman has been all along troubled, is a most unfavourable symptom. Like Oratiano, he "talks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons sre as two grains of wheat, hid in two bushels of chaff; 'you shall seek all day ere you find them... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1797
...man in all Venice : His reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you mail feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. ANT. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this fame To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1798
...faction, as far at least as he could judge from the evidence of the Public Journals, may be compared to " two grains of •wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and ivhenyoubavethem, they arc not-worth the search*." The just application of the foregoing words, will,... | |
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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. 
