 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...receives the falling inflection, and the thing denied the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. The quality of mercy is not*' strained'. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. 28. It is not^ grief that bids me moan ; It is that I am all alone.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...Por. Then must the Jew be merciful. Shy. On what compulsion must I? Tell me that. Por. The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth, as the gentle...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... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...of benevolence, like that of mercy, " Is not strained, It droppeth like the gentle rain from Heaven, Upon the place beneath : It is twice blessed, It blesses him that gives, and him that takes." It is now midnight in Ireland. In a wretched hovel a miserable, half-starved mother presses to her... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...benevolence, like that of mercy, " Is not strained ; It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives, and him that takes." CICERO FOR MILO. BOT if, my lords, you are not yet convinced, though the thing siiines out with such... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1851 - 568 pages
...Ilotherfield, Feb. 23. 1851. SHAKSPEABE 8 " MERCHANT OF VENICE (Act IV. Sc. 1.). n the lines — " The quality of Mercy is not strained, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath." at is the meaning of the word "strained?" verb to strain is susceptible... | |
 | William Holmes, John Warner Barber - Allegories - 1851 - 342 pages
...of doing goodhe feels most truly that " it is more blessed to give than to receive." " The qnality of mercy is not strained ; ' It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven ' Upon the place beneath. It ia twice blessed ; ' It blesseth him who gives, and him who takes,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1851 - 582 pages
...Feb. 23. 1851. SHAKSPEARE'S " MERCHANT or VENICE " (Act IV. Sc. 1.). In the lines — " The quality of Mercy is not strained, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath." What is the meaning of the word " strained ? " The verb to strain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Jews - 2003 - 156 pages
...Then must the Jew be merciful. 175 SHYLOCK On what compulsion must I? Tell me that. PORTIA The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 180... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2003 - 242 pages
...Then must the Jew be merciful. SHYLOCK On what compulsion must I ? Tell me that. mo PORTIA The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest, It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis... | |
 | Gahl Sasson, Steve Weinstein - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2010 - 292 pages
...presses us to recall Shakespeare's transcendent admonition in The Merehant of Veniee: "The quality of Mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven. . . . [and] blesseth him that gives and him that takes. It is an attribute to God himself,... | |
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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... 
