 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 928 Seiten
...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Draws 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 Seiten
...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 companions; such rackers of orthography,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 Seiten
...discoveries ; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. 11 — iii. 6. 200. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-device11 companions, such rackers of orthography.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 440 Seiten
...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Draws 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,... | |
 | Plato - 1854 - 586 Seiten
...more it is drawn out. We have a similar metaphor in English ; where a person is said " to draw out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument ; " quoted from one of Foote's farces by Person in his Letters to Travis, if I rightly remember. Ficinus... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 Seiten
...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 - 1855 - 1088 Seiten
...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Draws out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out without a tomb ; And nrt alive still, while thy book doth live, A I abhor such • " That loves nil men," ie, tlmt is pleasing to all men.— k In the days of nrchery... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 Seiten
...illustrations were apt and pointed ; his elocution flowing and graceful. Unlike duller mortals, he never spun 'the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.' He was a great talker, and fitted to enlighten, instruct, and adorn society. His conversation was lively... | |
 | 1855 - 804 Seiten
...illustrations were apt and pointed ; his elocution flowing and graceful. Unlike duller mortals, he never spun ' the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.' He was a great talker, and fitted to enlighten, instruct and adorn society. His conversation was lively... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 Seiten
...the scholars by the ladies. Like Don Armado (and in part by creating him) Shakespeare "draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." Thus the play seems almost an experiment in seeing how well language spun into intricate, ornate, but... | |
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 
