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 sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? Handy-book of Literary Curiosities - Page 230by William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1104 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious3 voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it1 with a text. Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...gracious voicf, '•bscures the show of evil ? In religion, " hat damned error, but some sober brow AVill cries, and falls into a cough ; And then the whole quire hold their hips, and .' There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. How many cowards,... | |
| Rose Ellen Temple - Fame - 1847 - 120 pages
...being scasou'd 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 grossucss with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on liis outward... | |
| William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 536 pages
...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 sober brow Will bless it, and approve it7 with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes... | |
| Epes Sargent - English drama - 1848 - 466 pages
...plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil 1 In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow...with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dang'rous sea ; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian... | |
| William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...elsewhere in this play, which, as it seems to be its text, we give here from the mouth of Bassanio : — In religion What damned error, but some sober brow...'with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? The Christians do wrong to the Jews, and the Jews would not only claim the wild justice of revenge,... | |
| 1848 - 796 pages
...ought never to be abolished. We may well say, in the words of the poet, — ' In religion. What awful error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, — Hiding its grossness with fair ornament ?' All this ought to make us very careful how we employ Scripture... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...gracious3 voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow "'ill bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no rice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. Ho* many cowards,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1901 - 578 pages
...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...with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? : There is no vice so simple but assumes ! Some mark of virtue on his outward parts : How many cowards,... | |
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