 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 590 pages
...conversation, who does not call to mind Person's malicious description of his historic manner ? — ' Though his style is, in general, correct and elegant,...staple of his argument. In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terras, he too often dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in a splendid dress that would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. I Jakes out his table-book. Hoi. He dvaweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and fioint-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
 | 1828 - 358 pages
...be applied to Larcher ; for there is reason to suspect that in his chronological essays "he draweth the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument," and that the web of history must be woven of better materials than can be collected from Athenaeus... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...icithotct affection,] ie without affectation. * thrasonical^] Boastful, bragging, from 'I 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 - 1811 - 436 pages
...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 phantasms, such iusociable and point-devise]! companions; such rackers of orthography,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 phantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
 | 1814 - 580 pages
...perversion of language, for the pleasure of turning the Scripture into ribaldry, or of calling Jesus an impostor. • Though his style is, in general, correct and elegant, he sometimes drams out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. In endeavouring to avoid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 496 pages
...I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takea out his Table-Book. Hol. 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 eompanions; such rackers of orthography,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...perversion of language, for the pleasure of turning the Scripture into ribaldry, or of calling Jesus an impostor. Though his style is, in general, correct...endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts in a splendid dress that would be rich enough for the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 792 pages
...remarks, "too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. — 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,... | |
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 
