| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 628 páginas
...inestimable price. Like the divine quality of mercy, so finely described by THE POET of our Isle, it is " twice blessed." " It blesses him that gives and him that takes." I am guilty of tautology in saying how much it is an innate of your bosom ; and it is, I thank GOD,... | |
| 1807 - 788 páginas
...evils so numerous, that we recommend it without the smallest hesitation. Like Shakespeare's Mercy, It is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives, and him that takes, and no man ever did good to any other person by this means, without doing abundantly more to himself.... | |
| Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 428 páginas
...quality of Mercy's not restrain'd: It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the land beneath. It is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives, and him that takes. SHAKESPEAR. The mildest of the affections which belong to the family of Love, diffuse a pleasurable... | |
| 1817 - 548 páginas
...quality of Mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives and him that takes." It is well known that London is composed of all dusses ef persons; natives of every quarter of the... | |
| Josiah Quincy - 1825 - 986 páginas
...The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven — — — It is twice blessed ; It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.' " I leave you, gentlemen, hoping you will be directed in your inquiry and judgment, to a right discharge... | |
| 1829 - 860 páginas
...criticism ; but we expect from our readers thanks ; and to Mr. James we can only nay, that poetry, like mercy, " is twice blessed, it blesses him that gives and him that takes." The bard were no true poet who " did but wake his music for himself." Londiniana ; or, Reminiscences of... | |
| 1829 - 512 páginas
...we expect from our readers thanks ; and to Mr. James we can only say, that poetry, like mercy, \* i! twice blessed, it blesses him that gives and him that takes." The bard were no true poet who " did but wake his music for himself." VARIETIES. " Come, let us stray Where... | |
| 1832 - 550 páginas
...bitterly suffering from the consequences of it at the present moment. Charity, according to the poet is " twice blessed, it blesses him that gives, and him that takes ;" but under this system it is to be feared, it too often proves a curse, especially when given in... | |
| 1833 - 438 páginas
...their Brightest splendors. It is everywhere of inestimable price. Like the divine quality of mercy, it is twice blessed. It blesses him that gives, and him that takes. THE MONKEY AND THE CHILD. My young readers have probably heard many stories about that mischievous ture,... | |
| Henry Halford - 1833 - 266 páginas
...obligations to Dr. Cotton, and you will agree with me, that gratitude partakes of the quality of mercy, and is ' twice blessed. It blesses him that gives, and him that takes;' and fortunate above all others is your profession, which gives you occasion to hear the language of... | |
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