...love. Gratiano's joking is tolerated, but seen as ultimately shallow. Bassanio accuses him of speaking an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in...when you have them they are not worth the search. (ii 114-18) As with Gratiano's own comments on the lovers, if this were said to his face it might pass...

...was interesting. If you proceed a little further in the play, you'll find this quotation: BASSANIO Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more...of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them . . . — The Merchant of Venice, act 1, scene 1 Bassanio counters that, in truth, Gratiano speaks...

...- a sensitive transition) that Bassanio used for Gratiano after an equally affected piece of verse: 'His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two...when you have them they are not worth the search' (I, i, 114-18). Shylock now enters, and Salerio and Solanio divert their malice towards him, with some...

...quarter on a whistle? I didn't want a whistle after all." Shakespeare wrote in The Merchant of Venice, "You shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search." In our compulsive quest for satisfaction, we have become a throwaway society. We throw away food, throw...

...17 are two grains of 1 1 5 wheat hid in two bushels of chaff. 1 18 You shall1 19 seek all day ere120 you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search. Antonio Well. Tell me now, what lady is the same To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage121 1 20 That...

...and fade. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. ii. BY JEREMIAH S. BLACK. " Gratiano speaks of an infinite deal of nothing;, more than any man in...when you have them they are not worth the search." — Merchant of Venice. THE request to answer the foregoing paper comes to me, not in the form but...

...Geschwätz wird von Bassanio ebenfalls auf komische Weise kommentiert: "Gratiano speaks an invinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice,...when you have them, they are not worth the search." (I, l, 1 14-1 18) Bassanio spricht diese Sätze in Prosa und nicht in Versform, wie ansonsten alle...

...(Gratiano and Lorenzo exit.) ANTONIO: BASSANIO: ANTONIO: BASSANIO: ANTONIO: BASSANIO: Is that anything now? Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice, His reasons are like two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of corn: you must seek all day ere you find them, and when...

...characteristic of malignant disposition we can see in the speech of the good-natured Gratiano, who spoke 'an infinite deal of nothing more than any man in all Venice;' —Too wild, too rude and bold of voice! the skipping spirit, whose thoughts and words reciprocally...

...r. 249 (Sender's speeches), you should hear r. Аво I, 3, 6. thou speakest r. V, 1, 41. its — t are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff*, Merch. 1, 1, 118. an you will not be answered with r., l must die, As II, 7, 100. I am loath to prove...