 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
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1833 - 442 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
...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
...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 - 142 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
...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 - 299 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 - 216 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 - 127 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
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836
...us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three 2 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' the year, I came to't that day... | |
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