| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 480 str.
...speaks without stopping to take breath, with ease, with point, with elegance, and without "spinning the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." He may be said to weave words into any shapes he pleases for use or ornament, as the glass-blower moulds... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 str.
...peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. 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 fantasms, such insociable and point-devise 8 companions ; such rakers of orthography,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 str.
...vainglorious, boastful. Nath. 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 fantastical phantasms, such insociable and pointdevise 6 companions ; such rackers of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1827 - 844 str.
...peregrinate, as 1 may call it. ffath. A most singular and choice epithet. [TVfA-M i>uf his table bonk. Hoi. t be great ; Art not without ambition ; but without The illness sho nis argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, su rh insociable and point-derise companions ¡ such... | |
| Charles Butler - 1827 - 318 str.
...is very often obscure. 17 its due share of praise, lie remarks that, " Mr. " Gibbon sometimes draws out the thread of his " verbosity finer than the staple of his argu" ment*:" that, " in endeavouring to avoid " vulgar terms, he too frequently dignifies " trifles,... | |
| 1820 - 398 str.
...Herrys, may, perhaps, incur the charge of diffuseness ; we, however, do not think the poet has weaved " the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." " I've seen, indeed, the hopeful bud Of a ruddy rose, that stood Blushing to behold the ray Of the... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 str.
...s. S rant in words ; prolix ; tedious by multiplicity of words : the noun substantive corresponding, He draweth out the thread of his verbosity Finer than the staple of his argument. Shahtpean. They ought to be brief, and not too verbau in their way of speaking ; and to propound the... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 str.
...I may call it. Jfath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes oui AM table-book. Hoi. He drawcth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devises companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| 1830 - 428 str.
...contemplations rays' No. SS.—GATTY. I.. £. Last. A frizzled old Frenchman with a broken tooth $ He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Snuffy, polite, loquacious and inspiring Intrigues. Attendant on a travelling youth Fr«m college,... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 str.
...peregrinate, as I may call it. Natk. 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 fantasms, such insociable and point-devise"1 companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
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