| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 628 pages
...of inestimable price. Like the divine quality of mercy, so finely described by THE POET of our Isle, it is " twice blessed." " It blesses him that gives and him that takes." I am guilty of tautology in saying how much it is an innate of your bosom ; and it is, I thank GOD,... | |
| Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...see the sword of justice stained with human blood : he is merciful almost to a fault ; The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle...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... | |
| Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 526 pages
...the sword of justice stained with human blood : he is merciful almost to a fault ; • The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle...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... | |
| English literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...evils so numerous, that we recommend it without the smallest hesitation. Like Shakespeare's Mercy, It is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives, and him that takes, and no man ever did good to any other person by this means, without doing abundantly more to himself.... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1809 - 570 pages
...have the best and most improving effect on the mind of the donor. The quality of charity like that of mercy, " Is not strained) " It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven " Upon the earth beneath." The immense sums distributed to the poor in this country, by the... | |
| Thomas Cogan - Christianity - 1813 - 428 pages
..., The quality of Mercy's not restrain'd: It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the land beneath. It is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives, and him that takes. SHAKESPEAR. The mildest of the affections which belong to the family of Love, diffuse a pleasurable... | |
| 1817 - 548 pages
...appositely remarks, " 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 blesses him that gives and him that takes." It is well known that London is composed of all dusses ef persons; natives of every quarter of the... | |
| Theater - 1823 - 432 pages
...churches then, or else he shall suffer not thinking on. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. MERCY. Portia The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath. It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. Merchant of Venice,... | |
| W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 pages
...have always been productive of innumerable evils, both to the victors and the vanquished. The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, upon the place beneath. There cannot be a greater absurdity than for a man to run the hazard... | |
| Romani - 1824 - 548 pages
...et exaltat," which coincides remarkably with a passage in the " Merchant of Venice." " The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath." — Act III. Sc. 1. NOTE 48. Page 166. " As QUIDIUS has observed."... | |
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