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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 pages
...not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man 8 ; any strange beast there makes a man : when they will...a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian9. Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my 1 — - this fish painted,] To exhibit...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...smells like a fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell ; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish ! Were I in England now (as once I...and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool theVe but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man; any Mrange beast there...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 pages
...bumbard distillation." STEEVENS. ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted 7 , not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 184

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...sight of Caliban, gives expression to the regret : — ' Were I in England now, as I once was, and had this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' The dream of discovering an El Dorado, the hope of plunder, and religious fervour sent men on expeditions...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...strange fish ! Were I in England now (as once I was,) and had this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4

1822 - 654 pages
...society is all very well for select people. Your's to command, Kit Cannister." HOW TO SEE TEIE DEVIL. " Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver." — Temput. JOHN Bull is fond of sights, And of a disposition far too curious ; In England any monster...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 5

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...society is all very well for select people. Your's to command, Kit Cannister." HOW TO SEE THE DEVIL. " Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver." — Tempest. JOHN Bull is fond' of sights, And of a disposition far too curious; In England any monster...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 21-22

British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...' and had but this fish painted, not an holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. — . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' Such is the inexhaustible plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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The Adventurer, Volume 3

English essays - 1823 - 298 pages
...Caliban, " and had but this fish painted, not an holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. — When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." Such is the inexhaustible plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical ..., Volumes 25-26

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 636 pages
...Caliban, ' and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver.— When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' Such is the inexhaustable plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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