| Thomas Dodgson - 1832 - 190 páginas
...tongue now talks with forcible naivete at the head's cost — and it is no wonder that he should " spin the thread of his verbosity, finer than the staple of his argument." Self-love now creeps out, and every restraint being completely withdrawn, we see the most ridiculous... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 páginas
...estimation. In allusion to his name, the monarch thus quotes from Love's Labour 'i Lost : ' He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms ; such insociable and point-device companions ; such rackers of orthography."... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 páginas
...call it. AB//I. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out hit table-boot. Hot. He draweth out , sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes were set at eight i'the mornin I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devise J) companions; such rakers of orthography,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 páginas
...historic manner ? — ' Though his style is, in general, correct and elegant, he sometimes draws out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms, he too often dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 páginas
...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 the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise5 companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1836 - 986 páginas
...2 SPALDING ... 34 ARMYTAGE . . . 109 was already officially registered! CHAPTER IX. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, >uch point-device companions, such rackers of orthography ! SHAESPlU.EE.... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1837 - 366 páginas
...must presently discover that a most undeserved compliment has been paid to him, since " he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." At first sight, it would seem to be a paradox that the fame of Higgons should stand so high among our... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 páginas
...too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as 1 may call it. — He draweth out . Is it true, think I abhor sucb fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point devise companions; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 páginas
...discoveries ; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. 11— iii. 6. 200 He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devicef companions, such rackers of orthography.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 páginas
...call it. \iiUi. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table book. Hoi. He draweth out tX 1@ 1 ( 1 1 abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
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