 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 400 pagina’s
...by placing the corresponding passages in immediate comparison with each other. PORTIA. The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice bless'd : It blesaeth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ;... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 pagina’s
...out the defence, closing by a hint to his worship and the gentlemen of the jury, that " The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath." etc. The judge ' summed up' and ' charged,' the jury retired, and brought in a verdict of guilty —... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 404 pagina’s
...and disposes a person to overlook injuries, or to treat an offender better than he deserves. -" Mercy is twice blessed ;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mighty ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the source of temporal... | |
 | Rowland Mainwaring - 1838 - 528 pagina’s
...of mercy :— " 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. It is an attribute to God himself! And earthly power doth then shew likest Gods, When mercy... | |
 | 470 pagina’s
...incredible. CHAP. XX. 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 ; "Tig mightiest .in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pagina’s
...night*, And his affections', dark as Erebus* : Let no such man be trusted*. , Mercy. — IB. The quality of mercy is not strained'; It droppeth as the gentle...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*... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pagina’s
...similar one in the monkish Latin of the middle age. / 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. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pagina’s
...James ii. 13; iii. 17. 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: Tis mightiest in the mighty ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pagina’s
...tell me that. Por. 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. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of justice,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1839 - 204 pagina’s
...and me.' " MERCY. 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 : Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown... | |
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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... 
