 | 1848 - 766 pàgines
...respectability who would back his version of it, for — "in Divinity, what error So damned and corrupt, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text?" All I meant was, that while Dr. Todd quietly, and without the smallest appeal to reason or authority,... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 pàgines
...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? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 1993 - 268 pàgines
...with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart." A friend of Antonio echoes that insight: "In religion, what damned error but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"17 Jesus must also have found sentiments expressed in other... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 279 pàgines
...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? (III.ii.75-80) These lines concentrate for us the full context... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - 1995 - 1402 pàgines
...plea so tainted and corrupted, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil; what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text?"61 This was enough to frighten the peyotists, who organized formally as the Native American Church... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pàgines
...plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? URENCE. Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous In this resolve: I'll send a friar with s Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - 1997 - 66 pàgines
...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 will bless it and approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 1999 - 648 pàgines
...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, Hiding thegrossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark ofvirtue on... | |
 | Lloyd Graham - 1991 - 496 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 636 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
