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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. "
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ... - Page 463
edited by - 1889 - 701 pages
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 348 pages
...tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GKATIANO and LORENZO. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well; tell me now, what lady is this same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship ...

William Henry Ireland - Fools and jesters - 1807 - 356 pages
...had imagined the society might afford ; this brings to mind these lines in the Merchant of Venice : " Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search". _ ;NG or FOOLS. •IS'-] e is naught, sir, so fraught, sir ; in love affairs, is a species , as to...
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Stultifera Navis; ...: The Modern Ship of Fools

William Henry Ireland - Satire, English - 1807 - 330 pages
...had imagined the society might afford; this brings to mind these lines in the Merchant of Venice: " Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search." K Or, if the German you are praising, \ His knowledge of that tongue's amazing , As well as Spanish,...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 398 pages
...neat's tongue dry'd, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. and LOREN. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Enss. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well ytell me now, what lady is this same, To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...tongue dry'd, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. and LOBEN. Ant. Is that any thing now ? $«,«. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, ttfey are not worth the search. Ant. Well ; -tell me now, what Iady is this same, To whom you swore...
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King Henry IV.: The First[-second] Part ... in Five Acts

William Shakespeare - 1808 - 400 pages
...neat's tongue dry'd, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. and LORES. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Bast. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find ihem ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. Ant. Well ; tfll me now, what lady is...
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The Literary Panorama, Volume 5

English literature - 1809 - 688 pages
...•with ill* usual characteristics of spectacle, rproceseious, dancing, fee. intended tp sup• Graliano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : his reasons are as two groins of wheat hid in two bushel* of chuff; ynu shall seek all day ere yon find thrm ; and when you...
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The Literary panorama, Volume 5, Issue 1809

1809 - 672 pages
...processions, dancing, &c. intended to sop' * Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than anv man in all Venice : his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels ofcrntf: you shall se'îk all day ere. you ijnd them ; and when vou have them, they 'are "not worth...
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Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence

George Campbell - Christian ethics - 1810 - 360 pages
...Bassanio in the play says of Gratiano's conversation, " They speak an infinite deal of nothing. Their reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels...when you have them they are not worth the search." To lay down therefore proper canons of sacred criticism, to arrange them according to their comparative...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. and LOREN. jlnt. Is that any thing now ? Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chalf; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search....
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