 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 Seiten
...Shakespeare's prose in the theatre. So Nerissa's sound counsel of moderation is developed by these means: they are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they...sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. But Portia's answering rebellious images are also sharpened in this antithetical way: The brain may... | |
 | Peter C. Whybrow - 2005 - 358 Seiten
...healthy civil society. Chapter Nine FINDING BALANCE IN THE AGE OF THE MERCHANT: OF SELF AND SOCIETY They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they...with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, To he seated in the mean. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, 1 596-98 "HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE,... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - 2005 - 296 Seiten
...princes who come to woo Portia do not, like Bassanio, need the money.) Yet, in the words of Nerissa, 'for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing' (i. ii. 5-6). Portia's weariness, at the start of her first scene, matches Antonio's melancholy at... | |
 | Walter Gratzer - 2005 - 306 Seiten
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You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing... 
