 | Education - 1912 - 632 pages
...the questions you would use for the purpose of bringing out the meaning of the line: (4) "The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven upon the place (b) What is the essential question in your opinion to be asked respecting the second line? What... | |
 | New York (State). Division of Probation - Probation - 1913 - 472 pages
...closing I desire to quote some lines which seem particularly appropriate to this subject: "The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle dew from Heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed — It blesseth him that gives and -him that takes — 'Tis mightiest... | |
 | Arthur Frederick Sheldon - 1917 - 120 pages
...fool very many of the people very much of the time." From justice also flows mercy, and "The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blest ; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in... | |
 | 1917 - 834 pages
...lyric given from Ruth. Blank Verse does not rhyme ; but it is regularly rhythmic ; as, "The quality of mercy is not stra-ined ; It dropp.eth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed ; It blcsseth him that gives and him thit takes." • — From ''Merchant... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1922 - 754 pages
...SWINBUBNE wrote : — "And to give thanks is sweet, and to forgive." SHAKSPEABE said : — "The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth, as the gentle dew from heaven, Upon the place beneath." SPINOZA — unfortunately the bookmarker has dropped out of the SPINOZA, but I am certain... | |
 | Mrs. Beatrice Cameron Mansfield, Beatrice Cameron - 1925 - 24 pages
...FLORENCE. It is not cold, human justice that my boy needs, but mercy — oh, Billy — The quality of mercy is not strained — it droppeth as the gentle dew from Heaven upon the place beneath, it is twice blessed, it blesseth him that gives, and him that takes — 'tis mightiest... | |
 | Thomas Worsley - Sermon on the mount - 1846 - 246 pages
...great poet's words are as true of holy Love, as they are of natural pity and compassion : The quality of mercy is not strained : It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the earth beneath. Nor, indeed, do we always find that those who maintain these freer movements of our spirits, these... | |
 | Mormons - 1892 - 662 pages
...the balance and found wanting in this divinely beautiful attribute. The poet has said: The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed, it blesses him that gives and him that takes ; "Tis mightiest in... | |
 | William Gardner (headmaster of St. Crysostom's sch, Liverpool.) - 1870 - 64 pages
...Present. Past. Imperfect Part. Perfect Part. love loved loving loved LESSON LXXXVII. Parse — The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed : It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. LESSON LXXXVIII.... | |
 | Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.) - 1911 - 348 pages
...Commanderies at Christmas time was commended, and called out the following fine sentiment: "The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven, It is twice blessed. It blesseth Him that gives, and him that takes." The Grand Commander called the... | |
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The quality of mercy is not strained— It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven, Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than... 
