| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 str.
...neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. and LOR. Ant. Is that any thing now ? Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing ; more...man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of whoat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them,... | |
| George Willson - 1840 - 298 str.
...deprived of one of the simplest, and yet most useful inventions connected with the dress of modern times. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...seek all day ere you find them ; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. — Shakspeare. If to do, were as easy as to know what were good... | |
| George Campbell - 1840 - 450 str.
...which Bassanio in the play gives of Gratiano's conversation ; " He speaks an infinite deal of nothing. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two...seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search4." It is therefore futility in the thought, and not perspicuity... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840 - 754 str.
...Kegulus's barrel. We must often admit that the beauties of Beaumont and Fletcher are wheat grains lost amid bushels of chaff ; " you shall seek all day ere you...you have found them they are not worth the search." But anon they are a handful of diamonds scattered through a hillock of rubbish, wedges of gold beaming... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 str.
...every subject with equal happiness, has hit off the great talker with admirable truth and spirit:—" Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...man in all Venice; his reasons are as two grains of * This illustration is given a different turn by Pope, who says " it is with narrow-souled people as... | |
| 1840 - 708 str.
...they say of their preacher as Bassanio said of Gratiano, " He speaks an infinite deal of nothing ; his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two...you have found them, they are not worth the search," the consequence is, the hearers lose the character of hearers, their minds are diverted to other objects,... | |
| Christian Bouscaren - 1966 - 260 str.
...glance at the written copy of my evidence, allowed me to skim quickly through it and then dismissed me. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when... | |
| 1904 - 510 str.
...become like Gratiano, the ancient proser, who spoke an infinite deal of nothing; and whose reasons were as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff;...seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search." Truth brings unity, and unity strength and power. Let us all work... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 816 str.
...speak with ; he says " an infinite deal of nothing ; his reasons are as two grains of wheat hidden 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." But enough of him. Our old college cronies have left Edinburgh... | |
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