The Merchant of VeniceD.C. Heath & Company, 1909 - 142 páginas |
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The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare,Rick Lee,Stephanie Burgin,RSA Shakespeare in Schools Project Pré-visualização limitada - 1994 |
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare,Aidan Coleman,Abbie Thomas,Shane Barnes Pré-visualização limitada - 2010 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbott Antonio appears Bass Bassanio Bellario Belmont Blank Verse bond caskets choose chooseth Christian Compare court daughter derived doth Duke English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes F. S. Boas fair father fear feeling flesh fool forfeit fortune Furness Gentlemen of Verona give gold Gratiano hath hear heart heaven honour husband Jessica Jew's Julius Cæsar lady Laun Launcelot Gobbo live look Lord Bassanio Lorenzo Macbeth master means Merchant of Venice mercy merry metre Nerissa never night Padua passage Pecorone peize phrase play Portia pray thee Prince of Morocco prose reference rhyme rhythm Richard II ring Salan Salanio Salar Salarino scene sense Shakespeare ship Shylock Signior soul speak spirit story swear sweet syllables tell thou thought three thousand ducats to-night Tripolis trochee Tubal Twelfth Night Variorum Edition verb wife word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 10 - Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say, ' Hath a dog money ? Is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Página 51 - Tarry a little ; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh : ' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Página 49 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 30 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Página 52 - Therefore, prepare thee to cut off the flesh. Shed thou no blood ; nor cut thou less nor more But just a pound of flesh : if thou tak'st more, Or less, than a just pound — be it but so much As makes it light or heavy in the substance, Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple — nay, if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair — Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate ! Gra.
Página 56 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 30 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Página 11 - With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this ; ' Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last ; You spurn'd me such a day ; another time You call'd me dog ; and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much moneys
Página 46 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
Página 58 - By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils...