The Staple of News, Volumes 28-29H. Holt, 1905 - 276 pages |
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Page lvi
... phrases , ' the time ' and ' the times , ' and satirized him in his mask as Chronomastix , the Scourge of the Times . And ... phrase ' green plover , ' and Peniboy Senior's words , ' his beard has time to grow , " probably allude to the ...
... phrases , ' the time ' and ' the times , ' and satirized him in his mask as Chronomastix , the Scourge of the Times . And ... phrase ' green plover , ' and Peniboy Senior's words , ' his beard has time to grow , " probably allude to the ...
Page 94
... phrase , as ' tis the worst of canting , By how much it affects the fenfe , it has not . FIT . This is fome other then he seemes ! like you him ? FIT . This cannot be a Canter ! 65 70 75 P. Iv . How P. Iv . But he is , Sir , [ 60 ] 80 ...
... phrase , as ' tis the worst of canting , By how much it affects the fenfe , it has not . FIT . This is fome other then he seemes ! like you him ? FIT . This cannot be a Canter ! 65 70 75 P. Iv . How P. Iv . But he is , Sir , [ 60 ] 80 ...
Page 125
... phrase find guilty ; and see Glossary . 30. expect 8. 24 ) : • • understand . Cf. Neptune's Triumph ( GC . ' Poet . As , how , sir ? Cook . Expect . I am by my place , to know the palates of the guests ; so you are to know the palates ...
... phrase find guilty ; and see Glossary . 30. expect 8. 24 ) : • • understand . Cf. Neptune's Triumph ( GC . ' Poet . As , how , sir ? Cook . Expect . I am by my place , to know the palates of the guests ; so you are to know the palates ...
Page 126
... phrase for reproving , as here , the perverse and unreasonable expectations of the male or female gossips of the day . ' To suppose , with Steevens and Malone , that Jonson derived all his knowledge of Shakspeare from his printed works ...
... phrase for reproving , as here , the perverse and unreasonable expectations of the male or female gossips of the day . ' To suppose , with Steevens and Malone , that Jonson derived all his knowledge of Shakspeare from his printed works ...
Page 127
... phrase , ' says : ' Craik , too ( The English of Shakespeare , p . 273 ) , considers Jonson's criticism as " good evidence that the passage did not originally stand as we have it . " On the other hand , Mr. W. Aldis Wright remarks the ...
... phrase , ' says : ' Craik , too ( The English of Shakespeare , p . 273 ) , considers Jonson's criticism as " good evidence that the passage did not originally stand as we have it . " On the other hand , Mr. W. Aldis Wright remarks the ...
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Page 157 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.
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Page 127 - And I, to shun this place and clime for ever, Creeping with house on back, and think it well To shrink my poor head in my politic shell.
Page 117 - But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, because impudently, beating down the mews and hisses of the opposed rascality.
Page 162 - He the half of life abuses That sits watering with the Muses. Those dull girls no good can mean us ; Wine — it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted : Ply it, and you all are mounted.
Page 115 - ... your apparel is quite eaten up, the fashion lost, and the proportion of your body in more danger to be devoured than if it were served up in the counter amongst the poultry; avoid that as you would the bastome.
Page 138 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 163 - These acts continued in force till lately, to the terror of all ancient females in the kingdom: and many poor wretches were sacrificed thereby to the prejudice of their neighbours, and their own illusions; not a few having, by some means or other, confessed the fact at the gallows.
Page 203 - The marshalling of coat-armour, which was formerly the pride and study of all the best families in the kingdom, is now greatly disregarded; and has fallen into the hands of certain officers and attendants upon this court, called heralds...
Page 126 - ALL tenures being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite...