 | English periodicals - 1861 - 578 pages
...he is expected to exert himself so valiantly that he is apt to lose courage, to stammer, to " spin the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." He is so thoroughly Christian that he dislikes to quarrel; his social life is often less narrow than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...may call it. 14 Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Draws out his Table-Book. Hoi. He drawcth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such phanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. 8 He ii too picked,' too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too...fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise ' companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine, when he should say, doubt; det,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 456 pages
...thrasonical. 8 He is too picked, 7 too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table-book. 4 —— your reasons at dinner hate been, &c.] I know not well what degree of respect Shakspeare intends... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 452 pages
...thrasonical. 0 He is too picked, 7 too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table-book. 4 your reasons at dinner have been, &x.~\ I know not well what degree of respect Shakspeare intends... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...and thrasonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his talle-look. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.... | |
 | William Cook - Dramatists, English - 1806 - 282 pages
...speaking of Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, *' That in some passages he drew the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." ccxvi. Pope. Sir Joshua Reynolds used to tell the following anecdote relative to Pope :--When Reynolds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 318 pages
...his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too picked, 4 too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too perigrinate, as I may call it. JVath. A most singular and choice epithet. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...thrasonical. 6 He is too pricked, 7 too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table book. what degree of respect Shakspeare intends to obtain for his vicar, but lie lias here put... | |
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too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too perigrinate, 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 the staple of his argument. I abhor such... 
