| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...A most singular and choice epithet. [ Takci out his table-book. HaL He drawclh out the thread of Ms . p 4X 4 @ 4 point-devise * companions ; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine, when he should say,... | |
| Robert Smith Surtees - 1843 - 974 pages
...doctor, spread throughout the land, and caused a wonderful sensation in his favour. A CHAPTER III. "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." — LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. THUS, then, matters stood at Michael Hardey's death. A great town had risen... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [ Takes out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than...abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise5 companions ; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, doubt, fine, when he should say,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 374 pages
...1 Enough is as good as a feast. 3 Discourse. 3 Affectation. « Boastful. 6 Showy in his dress. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than...abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and pointdevise ' companions ; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine, when he should say... | |
| Matthew Henry Barker - 1844 - 528 pages
...subtle disputant, too, and enter eagerly on a controversy, to gratify his own love of talking, — for "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." The vulgar applaud him to the very echo of praise, and his name is coupled with the terms " eloquence... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 456 pages
...He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were too peregrinate, as I may call it. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." Act v. Sc. 1. and patronage of the Earl of Southampton in any spirit of contempt, or for the purpose... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...theory which Bolingbroke is supposed to have given him, and which he expanded into verse. But " he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." All that he says, " the very words, and to the self-same tune," would prove just as well that whatever... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pages
...introduced by such persons as this refining " child of fancy :" — " I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-device companions ; such rackers of orthography as to speak dottt, fine, when he should say doubt; del, when he should pronounce deut, d, e, b, t; not d, c, t;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1846 - 574 pages
...perigrinate, as I may call it. Natlt. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than...abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine, when he should say,... | |
| Henry Lushington - 1846 - 52 pages
...PRrMTERS, WHITKFRIARS. •t I MR. LUSHINGTON'S ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF BROAD GAUGE AND BREAKS OF GAUGE. " He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." — Lov&s Labour's Lost. THE occasion which has called forth this demonstration in favour of Broad... | |
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