...plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil 1 In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow...with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dang'rous sea ; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian...

...Ohscures the show of eril? In religion, What damned erroe. hut some soher hrow Will kless it and approre it with a text. Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple kut assumes Some mark of rirtue in its outward parts. SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice. Ait Hl 15....

...with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart." A friend of Antonio echoes that insight: "In religion, what damned error but some sober brow...approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"17 Jesus must also have found sentiments expressed in other psalms to be contrary to acceptable...

...the right casket: In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned...with a text Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? (III.ii.75-80) These lines concentrate for us the full context in which the play's action occurs, the...

...plea so tainted and corrupted, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil; what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text?"61 This was enough to frighten the peyotists, who organized formally as the Native American Church...

...all know that isolated verses fit with anything. Shakespeare put it well in the Merchant of Venice: "In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow...a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished in principle at all from liberalism,...

...the eyes. With gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. 10401 The Merchant of Venice There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 10402 The Merchant of Venice The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from...

...corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show ofevil? In religion, What damnd error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding thegrossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark ofvirtue on his outward...

...chapter. Let us get behind the hoax that we too may partake of "the tree of knowledge." 3 The Serpent In religion what damned error but some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text. SHAKESPEARE. Asa molder of religious thought, the third chapter of Genesis has been, perhaps, the greatest...

...MURRAY (ff. ED): f 2. To attest (a thing) with some authority, to corroborate, to affirm. Compare, ' What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text.' — Mer. of Ven. III, ii, 79. MALONE : That he proves the common liar, fame, in his case to be a true...