| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 480 pagina’s
...speaks without stopping to take breath, with ease, with point, with elegance, and without "spinning the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." He may be said to weave words into any shapes he pleases for use or ornament, as the glass-blower moulds... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pagina’s
...boastful. 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 fantastical phantasms, such insociable and pointdevise 6 companions ; such rackers of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pagina’s
...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 fantasms, such insociable and point-devise 8 companions ; such rakers of orthography,... | |
| 1820 - 398 pagina’s
...Herrys, may, perhaps, incur the charge of diffuseness ; we, however, do not think the poet has weaved " the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." " I've seen, indeed, the hopeful bud Of a ruddy rose, that stood Blushing to behold the ray Of the... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pagina’s
...words ; prolix ; tedious by multiplicity of words : the noun substantive corresponding, He draweth out the thread of his verbosity Finer than the staple of his argument. Shahtpean. They ought to be brief, and not too verbau in their way of speaking ; and to propound the... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pagina’s
...may call it. Jfath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes oui AM table-book. Hoi. He drawcth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devises companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 pagina’s
...may call it. Natk. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table book. Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devise"1 companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| 1830 - 428 pagina’s
...rays' No. SS.—GATTY. I.. £. Last. A frizzled old Frenchman with a broken tooth $ He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Snuffy, polite, loquacious and inspiring Intrigues. Attendant on a travelling youth Fr«m college,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pagina’s
...call it. Jfalh. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table-book. Hoi. He drawcth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise1 companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pagina’s
...call it. Jftttk. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out ha table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor sneh fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise* companions ; such rackcrs of orthography,... | |
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