| Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1839 - 388 pages
...not interrupt the arrangement of our History. Never shall it be said of the Unknown that " he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argu100 ment." We have a journey to perform from Dan to Beersheba, and we must halt occasionally by... | |
| Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd as it were, too peregrinate as I may call it. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable companions, such rackers of orthography as to speak... | |
| Robert Smith Surtees - 1843 - 974 pages
...spread throughout the land, and caused a wonderful sensation in his favour. A CHAPTER III. "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." — LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. THUS, then, matters stood at Michael Hardey's death. A great town had risen... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [ Takes nut his table-book. Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantosms, such insociable and point-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 360 pages
...may call it. Nath. 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 phantasms, such insociable and point-devise 0 companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| Matthew Henry Barker - 1844 - 528 pages
...disputant, too, and enter eagerly on a controversy, to gratify his own love of talking, — for "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." The vulgar applaud him to the very echo of praise, and his name is coupled with the terms " eloquence... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 456 pages
...picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were too peregrinate, as I may call it. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." Act v. Sc. 1. and patronage of the Earl of Southampton in any spirit of contempt, or for the purpose... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...theory which Bolingbroke is supposed to have given him, and which he expanded into verse. But " he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." All that he says, " the very words, and to the self-same tune," would prove just as well that whatever... | |
| 1846 - 906 pages
...us without such communications, he is — a messenger without tidings — a word-pedlar, who " draws out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." Momentous, therefore, to the Christian poet, beyond all his other accomplishments, is 'a familiar acquaintance... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1846 - 574 pages
...may call it. Natlt. 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-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
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