 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 mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his...  Wisconsin Journal of Education - Page 1291888Full view - About this book
 | Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 332 pages
...prisoners, and I fully realized the truth of the lines of the greatest of poets : — " The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle...heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blest : It blcsseth him that gives and him that takes." Happy as those poor fellows were, I doubt if they were... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere, himself, In lowliness of heart. 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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...loves his brother man, life can never be without hope. -. SELECTIONS FROM SHAKSPEARE. •' 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 560 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 rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.... | |
 | 1847 - 796 pages
...then might he heap up words against me, and shake his head at me, remembering also that " The quality of mercy is not strained ; 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... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 pages
...but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe. Milton. XIV. 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.... | |
 | Richard Cobbold - 1848 - 72 pages
...celebrated speech of wisdom, which is one of Shakspeare's grandest and most sublime passages. " 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...as sport hy sport o'erthrown. The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...And calls the astonishing magnificence Of unintelligent creation popr. Mercy. SHAKSPEARE. THE quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon this place- beneath : It is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pages
...they shall ohtain mercy." With the text, it should he deeply impressed upon our hearts. "The quality of mercy is not strained: It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place heneath; it is twice hlessed: It hlesscth him that gives and him that takes;... | |
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