...НчЦ being KMon'd with a gracious voice, Lore. Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What dangerous prevailmcnt in unharden'd youth : Witli cunning hast thou filc tell. Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assunu»* Some mark...

...bell. Bass. So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceived with ornament.2 In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being...error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it3 with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes...

...world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd ormer state ; how soon Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feJ2ii'd ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on its outward parte. How many cowards,...

...all know that isolated verses fit with anything. Shakespeare put it well in the Merchant of Venice: "In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow...a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished in principle at all from liberalism,...

...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...

...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...

...rejeitá-lo: S0 may the outward shows be least themselves. The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being...seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show ofevil? In religion, What damnd error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text,...

...chapter. Let us get behind the hoax that we too may partake of "the tree of knowledge." 3 The Serpent In religion what damned error but some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text. SHAKESPEARE. Asa molder of religious thought, the third chapter of Genesis has been, perhaps, the greatest...

...MURRAY (ff. ED): f 2. To attest (a thing) with some authority, to corroborate, to affirm. Compare, ' What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text.' — Mer. of Ven. III, ii, 79. MALONE : That he proves the common liar, fame, in his case to be a true...

...Merchant of Venice both by Bassanio, as he reflects at a critical turning-point in the play on how 'In religion, / What damned error, but some sober brow / Will bless it and approved it with a text' (3.2.77-9), and by Graziano, who speaks of 'a sort of men whose visages /...