 | Cynthia Lewis - 1997 - 268 pàgines
...however, Portia's appreciation of human limitations is realistic beyond her years: "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces" (12-14). Yet her awareness that human inadequacy requires compassion... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2003 - 340 pàgines
...thankful for, she admits that they are "Good sentences, and well pronounc'd." But "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces" and other words to the same effect (1.2.10-26): the definition of... | |
 | 366 pàgines
...in Western and Eastern Nigeria (1969). IX THE APPLICATION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice l Joseph Tussman once... | |
 | Beatrix Hesse - 1998 - 214 pàgines
...deren Ausführung referiert Portia bereits bei ihrem ersten Auftreten in I.ii: "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier... | |
 | Robert P. George - 1998 - 302 pàgines
...Studies and Professor of Philosophy University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor meri's cottages princes' palaces. Merchant of Venice 1.2 These words make it clear that if Portia were... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. 10388 The Merchant of Venice If to do were as easy men's cottages princes' palaces. 10389 The Merchant of Venice There is not one among them but I dote... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1999 - 224 pàgines
...the capacity of the reason to exert the requisite control over the emotions: If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces . . . The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps... | |
 | John G. Koeltl - 1999 - 804 pàgines
...to you: As a noted woman advocate, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, put it: "If to do were as easy to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." It is certainly easier to discuss methods of presenting witnesses... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pàgines
...and power are still yours. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4, 17 (2nd century) 11 If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. William Shakespeare,... | |
 | Audrey Wood - 2001 - 438 pàgines
...mergers the Company sought profit stabilization through some corporate relationship If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, Chapels had been Churches, and poor men's cottages princes palaces. (Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1600)) In the thriving business... | |
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the... 
