 How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls...  The Metropolitan - Page 981836Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 1022 pages
...will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years 1 bave taken note of it ; the age is grown BO n your allowance, $ o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh 1 there be players, that 1 have seen play, How long hast thou been a gravemaker f 1 Clo. Of all the days i'the year, I came tot tbat day that... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1833 - 488 pages
...scene with the Gravedigger, "By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes...near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe." And Lorenzo, in the Merchant of I'enice, alluding to Launcelot:— O dear discretion, how his words... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 364 pages
...virtuous, or a mere good-natured deed, Does all desert in sciences exceed." — SHEFFIELD.] (2) [" The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes...near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — Hamlet.] xxxiv. But let it go : — it will one day be found With other relics of " a former world,"... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...virtuous, or a mere good-natured deed, Does all desert in sciences exceed." — SHEFFIELD.] (2) [" The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes...near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — Hamlet.] xxxvii. But let it go : — it will one day be found With other relics of " a former world,"... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1833 - 476 pages
...scene with the Gravedigger, "By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier lie galls his kibe." And Lorenzo, in the Merchant of Venice, alluding to Launcelot:— O dear discretion,... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...classes of the people have followed their superiors so closely, that, as SHAKSPEAUR shrewdly remarks, The toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, tha it galls his kibe. This is the case not only in luxury and extravagance, but most other vices,... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow - Presbyterianism - 1834 - 312 pages
...of North Carolina, officiating at the same hour, is --aid to be one item in the sum of provocation. "The toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, that he galls his kibe." Now for Mr. Otey's exposure, as he calls it. And.Iet me ask what has he exposed?... | |
 | Augustus Henry Moreton - Population - 1836 - 232 pages
...Hamlet's 204 mouth : — " By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes...England, wealthy and intelligent, possessed of no odious nor oppressive privileges, has been out-grown in the aggregate of wealth and intelligence by the middle... | |
 | Edward Hughes - Poor laws - 1836 - 140 pages
...admit. " By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so affected, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe." The taste for disparaging others, through inuendo, or censuring the absent, has, for a considerable period,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...us. By the lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked,3 that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker ? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' th' year, I came to't that day... | |
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