 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...  Recollections of Mexico - Page 94by Waddy Thompson - 1846 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Wynnard Hooper - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - 1824 - 552 pages
...et exaltat," which coincides remarkably with a passage in the " Merchant of Venice." " The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath." — Act III. Sc. 1. NOTE 48. Page 166. " As QUIDIUS has observed."... | |
 | Romani - 1824 - 548 pages
...et exaltat," which coincides remarkably with a passage in the " Merchant of Venice." " The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath." — Act III. Sc. 1. NOTE 48. Page 166. " As QUIDIUS has observed."... | |
 | Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 596 pages
...et exaltat," which coincides remarkably with a passage in the " Merchant of Venice." " The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath."—Act III. Sc. 1. NOTE 48. Page 166. " As QUIDIUS has observed." Who... | |
 | Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 566 pages
...et exaltat," which coincides remarkably with a passage in the " Merchant of Venice." " The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath." — Act III. Sc. 1 . NOTE 48. Page 166. " As QUIDIUS has observed."... | |
 | Henry Blake - Connemara (Ireland) - 1825 - 392 pages
...of the brightest gems in England's diadem ; — may England happily experience, 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 blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter aid the crash of worlds." TnAGE0r W GOTO. " 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... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...Magazine, the " Port-Folio" shall be omitted. Not otherwise. ED. SCRAPS FROM A PORT-FOLIO. " The quality of Mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven, Upon the place beneath." What a beautiful description' of that mercy which is charity, and... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1871 - 1146 pages
...was another quotation, better known, which was specially applicable in this case — " 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...looks a little paler ; 't is a day, Such as the day is when the sun is hid. MERCY. Portia. 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... | |
 | Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1831 - 248 pages
...well expressed, by the first lines of the following beautiful apostrophe of Shakspeare : " 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—... | |
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