 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - Страниц: 740
...that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies. APPEABANCES DECEITFUL. SHAKSPEBE. THE world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - Страниц: 282
...direct answer to the chorus: So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some... | |
 | Marc Shell - 1993 - Страниц: 264
...learns to say that, or act as though, he dismisses them. So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law,...with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? (3- 2- 73-77) Bassanio thus criticizes deceivers who use ornament to their evil purpose, perhaps as... | |
 | Rodney R. Jones - 1993 - Страниц: 224
...dismayed to learn that this method of settling disputes had been abolished in 1819. POETIC JUSTICE "In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being...with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?" WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, MERCHANT OF VENICE (HI, it, 74) Poetic justice: a lawyer with his tongue cut out.... | |
 | John Gross - 1994 - Страниц: 404
...before he makes his choice among the caskets, and the first example he gives comes from the courtroom: In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being seasoned with a gracious vo1ce, Obscures the show of evil? This would be an odd point to make if we were meant to look at it... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1995 - Страниц: 203
...she showed no more joy at having secured a station, to which he knew so many had aspired. CHAPTER XII The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? Merchant of Venice Jane entered upon the... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - 1995 - Страниц: 1402
...earnestness, and eloquence, might be met with the much quoted question: "What plea so tainted and corrupted, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil; what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text?"61 This was enough... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - Страниц: 1290
...— Ding, dong, belL All. Ding, dong, belL BASSANIO. So may the outward shows be least themselves: season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some... | |
 | Stephen Bretzius - 1997 - Страниц: 180
...when, in a wholly other context and on the level of form, Bassanio rejects the gold casket because "In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt / But, being...with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil?" (3.2.75-77), adding: "Look on beauty, / And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight" (88-89). In... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2003 - Страниц: 340
...malleability of the law seem to be coined with specific reference to her manipulations: In law, what pleas so tainted and corrupt, But being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? (3.2.75-77) The way Portia plays with Bellario's legal advice reveals her character rather than her... | |
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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There... 
