 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.  A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss - Seite 415von George Lewis Prentiss - 1855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1844 - 264 Seiten
...any soberer condemnation ? The high-minded and magnanimous Protestant will feel that " The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven," on Catholic as well as Protestant ; that it would be intolerant, as it would be unjust and... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 206 Seiten
...reverence, and for his sake conferred many favours upon the Christians. PERCY ANECDOTES. The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 200 Seiten
...reverence, and for his sake conferred many favours upon the Christians. PERCY ANECDOTES. The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 Seiten
...the war of elements, The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds." TRAGEDY or Clio. 1 '' The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : It is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...bakes the elf-locks2 in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. 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.... | |
 | Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 336 Seiten
...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 rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blest : It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."... | |
 | 1847 - 796 Seiten
...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...Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed — It blesses him that gives and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1849 - 380 Seiten
...seen the purity and simplicity and beauty of English speech in its highest perfection : The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle...Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesscth him that gives, and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1848 - 466 Seiten
...For. Then must the Jew be merciful. Shy. On what compulsion must I ? tell me that. For. The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth as the gentle...Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed : It blessfcth him that gives, and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned... | |
 | 1848 - 460 Seiten
...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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