 | Henry Stuart Foote - Biography & Autobiography - 1874 - 514 pages
...immortal bard of Avon when he said: The quality of mercy is not strained; It fulleth like the gentle ruin from heaven Upon the earth beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mighty ; if becomes The throned monarch better that... | |
 | William Smith - Church polity - 1875 - 352 pages
...blessed to give than to receive," been echoed in the well-known words of Shakespeare : — " 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." The rich would... | |
 | Sarah Birkbeck Nevins - 1875 - 348 pages
...PSALM xlix, 17. Prayer Book. " The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the earth beneath. It is twice blessed, It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." SHAKESPEARE. some of the party were returning from church, the next day,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1891 - 576 pages
...whom we are speaking cast out of their poetic Elysium such lines as Shakespeare's — ' The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.' or Sophocles's... | |
 | G. M. - Dissenters, Religious - 1876 - 146 pages
...Laetitia pleasantly, as she sat down to the harp, and, after a moment's thought, she began : " 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... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1876 - 528 pages
...in God, and God in him." Charity is the mother of mercy, and if it can be truly said : " 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 same may be said of charity... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 430 pages
...and hearts of the people against the reception of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Still — " 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.' What then is required ? We answer,... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce - Washington (D.C.) - 1880 - 460 pages
...Mr. Barncastle, striking an attitude and quoting Shakespeare from memory — " Mercy droppeth like the gentle dew from heaven Upon the earth beneath. It is twice blessed : It blesses him that gives and him that doth receive. "I gave it. All I had I gave with your benediction.... | |
 | John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 714 pages
...portions, globules, or drops, as a liquid; as, water drop* from the clouds or from the eaves. The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon tne place beneath. Skat. 2. To let drops fall; to drip; to discharge itself in drops. It was a loathsome... | |
 | John De Witt - Sermons, American - 1885 - 442 pages
...forfeiture nominated in the bond; and right also when he made Portia, the lawyer, say — "The quality of mercy is not strained: It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath." It is for this reason, also, that while one may confidently predict that the Moral... | |
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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... 
