 | Sharon Creeden - 1994 - 190 pągines
...Portia's famous speech in defense of her lover, Antonia, who had contracted a pound of flesh to Shylock: The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth...twice bless'd: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.... | |
 | Dora Kunz - 1995 - 348 pągines
...same healing energy. Shakespeare, in The Merchant of Venice, expressed this idea most beautifully: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth...twice bless'd: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Thus as our integrity becomes strengthened through the meditative process, we can let go... | |
 | Natalio Fernįndez Marcos - 98 pągines
...appeals for mercy: The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppcth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth...His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 374 pągines
...predicament. In respect to government the ideal was put perfectly by Portia in The Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth...His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 324 pągines
...opposites, as when justice and Christian mercy are balanced in Portia's speech in The Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth...His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin - 2001 - 32 pągines
...Portia's plea for mercy The quality of mercy is not strain' d, It droppeth as the gentle ram from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth...His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kingsBui mercy is above this sceptred... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 344 pągines
...merciful will receive mercy. In thought, word, and deed, always show mercy. As Shakespeare reminded us: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth...twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.7... | |
 | James W. Komarnicki Ed D. - 2004 - 324 pągines
...clemency; leniency shown to a guilty person; compassion]; compassionate (Allee 1977). Literary References: "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth...twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." (William Shakespeare in Kaplan 1992). "I shall temper so Justice with mercy" (John Milton... | |
 | Mark L. Prophet, Elizabeth Clare Prophet - 2004 - 205 pągines
...to undo psychological problems, hang-ups, depressions, records of the past. When Shakespeare wrote "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, / It droppeth...twice bless'd: / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes," he was putting in the mouth of Portia a key to the alchemy of this seventh age. The quality... | |
 | Kathy Elgin - 2005 - 32 pągines
...many times since their introduction by Henry VIII. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, >•§ The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth...twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, ACT 4, SCENE 1 Not many real court cases were as grand as this... | |
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; 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 : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better... 
