The Iowa Normal Monthly, Volume 3

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1879 - Education

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Page 161 - impossible I should live, 1 could wish to see you at my death; notwithstanding, use your pleasure ; if your love for me do not persuade you to come, let not my letter." ''O my dear love," said Portia, "despatch all business, and begone; you shall have gold to pay the money twenty times over, before
Page 160 - by the exaction of this forfeiture ? A pound of man's flesh, taken from a man, is not so estimable, nor profitable neither, as the flesh of mutton or beef. I say, to buy his favor, I offer this friendship ; if he will take it, so ; if not, adieu.
Page 160 - have railed at me about my moneys and my usuries, and I have borne it with a patient shrug, for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe ; and then you have called me unbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spit upon
Page 7 - Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach ; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul wouldst reach. It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. " Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed ; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall he a
Page 160 - I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him ; he hates our Jewish nation ; he lends out money gratis; and among the merchants he rails at me and my well-earned bargains which he calls interest. Cursed be
Page 175 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm ; Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. To such I render more than mere respect.
Page 38 - duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park, I found her in her chamber, reading Phsedon Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight, as some gentlemen would read a merry tale of
Page 163 - nearest Antonio's heart." Then she said to Shylock, " Be merciful; take the money, and bid me tear the bond." But no mercy would the cruel Shylock show ; and he said, " By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me." " Why then, Antonio," said Portia, " you must prepare your bosom for the knife;" and while Shylock was sharpening a long
Page 72 - ferules, horror and cruelty. Away with this violence! away with this compulsion! than which, I certainly believe nothing more dulls and degenerates a well-born nature. If you would have him fear shame and chastisement, do not harden him to them. Inure him to heat and cold, to wind and sun, and to dangers that he ought to despise.
Page 161 - With all my heart, Gratiano," said Bassanio, "if you can get a wife." The happiness of these lovers was sadly crossed at this moment by the entrance of a messenger, who brought a letter from Antonio containing fearful tidings. When Bassanio read Antonio's letter, Portia feared it

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