 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pagina’s
...Wootton availed himself of the double meaning of this expression, in his witty definition — '• k, hilt to point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in, like a strong disti 17. Ajffitcti. Used here for affections, inclinations, propensities. 18. Suggestions. Temptations,... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pagina’s
...either. One of the most venerable of modern puns is Sir Henry Wotton's slur upon an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." So pleased with it was the good knight himself, as to try to give it European currency by translating... | |
 | 1864 - 656 pagina’s
...either. One of the most venerable of modern puns is Sir Henry Wotton's slur upon an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." So pleased with it was the good knight himself, as to try to give it European currency by translating... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1865 - 922 pagina’s
...translation of an English pun. Walton says that Sir Henry "could have been content that his Latin could j i lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) wus not •o expressed in Latin as would admit... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 484 pagina’s
...his own Court. His conduct reminds us of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an ambassador — that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. A pun upon the term, foyerAmbassador. so by my Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money themselves,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 484 pagina’s
...Longaville. t> To Jit— to reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning <it fruition of an ambassador — "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." ' The folio reads brcitc. G 2 Stands in attainder of eternal shame : Suggestions* are to others, as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 622 pagina’s
...reside. Sir H. Wotton gives the following punning definition of the duties of an ambassador. — " An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." LONG OP YOU. Act II., Sc. 1. " 'T is long of you that spur me with such questions." Through you —... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pagina’s
...embassies, but he lost that monarch's conf1dence by writing in a friend's album, as a definition, " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," which was quoted eight years after by an adversary of the king, as one of the principles on which he... | |
 | 1870 - 858 pagina’s
...is due as much in one respect as the other. He it was who gave the definition of an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." And when his advice was onco asked in a matter of diplomatic tactics, he said, " Ever speak the truth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 668 pagina’s
...many examples. — [There is here doubtless a play upon the word, as in Sir Henry Wotton's definition: 'An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.' — ED.] 126. I must] STEEVENS: Alluding to the proverb: 'Patience perforce is medicine... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
