 | 1838 - 358 pages
...Bates there knows right well The genlman gave it me !" 3. W, C. TURF BENEVOLENT FUND. " The quality of mercy is not strained: It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the earth beneath : it is twice blessed: It blesseth him that fives, and him that takes." Merchant of Venice,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 320 pages
...almost to a fault; The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heav'n, Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and ,him that takes. The internal taxes are raised or reduced at the discretion of the king, which, with the... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 526 pages
...to a fault ; • The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heav'n, Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed : It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. The internal taxes are raised or reduced at the discretion of the king, which with the... | |
 | mrs. Burke - 1805 - 234 pages
...CHAP. III. " The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; " It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven " Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed— " It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. It becomes " The throned Monarch better than his crown." AlTER the departure of Mr. O'... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...MERCY. (SHAKESPEARE.) THE quality of Mercy is not strain'd; ]t droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon- the place beneath. It is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes j Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...work of mercy, a work of charity of the highest order. " It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven " Upon the place beneath; — it is twice blessed ; " It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." The distribution of our Tracts is, therefore, one department of eminent usefulness, to... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...This, we are told, is the original of Shakspere's simile in the Merchant of Venice: — " The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven, Upon the place beneath." If so, Shakspere has almost as much" credit in the improvement as in the origination of the idea. Pope's... | |
 | John Mathew Gutch - 1822 - 584 pages
...PHILANTHROPY IN IRELAND. The quality of mercy is not strained : It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : It is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...the grateful smell old Ocean smiles. Mercy. — SHAKSPEARE. The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth as the gentle dew from Heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest ; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes , 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It... | |
 | Sunday schools - 1824 - 412 pages
...blessing, for the happiness and profit of his fellow men ? This, indeed, is a charity " that droppetb, like the gentle dew from Heaven, upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; it blesseth Him that give*, and him that receives." Let then the S. School teacher resolve to visit the dear children of... | |
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The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes... 
