| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...call it. .\. ><i.'. 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 unsociable and point-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| 1909 - 1118 pages
...Shakespeare Problem Re-stated, and sum up his views, if he remembers old Holofernes, by saying, ' He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.' 5 The Dedication of the First Folio which is addressed to ' William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlaine... | |
| Institute of Metals - 1922 - 690 pages
...of office, and the kindly but withal firm manner in which he had restrained the speaker " who drew out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument," himself, perchance, not guiltless in the matter. Finally, from personal acquaintance with Sir George... | |
| 1888 - 714 pages
...literature generally. She is garrulous, but not like him of whom Master Holofernes said, " He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." She loved the marvellous, and is minute in her descriptions of the incredible. It was an age when mankind... | |
| Hans-Jürgen Weckermann - 1978 - 380 pages
...too spruce, too affected, too odd, äs it were, too peregrinate, äs I may call it. 155 He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. * (LLL V. i. 8-12, 14-15) Schon Terence Hawkes hat in seiner Interpretation p von Love s Labour s Lost... | |
| Sidney Homan - 1981 - 246 pages
...Holofernes on stage we can be both amused and yet dismayed by his mad rape of the language: He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-device companions; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...The remaining senses are outgrowths of this: (3) delicately wrought, opposed to coarse: "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument"— Love's Labor's Lost. (4) sharp-pointed, keen-edged: "What fine chisel Could ever yet cut breath?"-... | |
| Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...loudly of Armado's (metaplastic) violation of what he takes to be correct pronunciation: He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography,... | |
| Leonard B. Meyer, Eugene Narmour, Ruth A. Solie - 494 pages
...March of 1825 complained that "the author has spun it out to so unusual a length, that he has drawn out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument" ("C," 91) and, in another case, that "its length alone will be a never- failing cause of complaint... | |
| Richard Heffernan, Mike Marqusee - 1992 - 356 pages
...challenged Major to a televised debate. Major justified his refusal by quoting Shakespeare: “He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.” It was a good sally, long researched, but it should not have stopped Kinnock and his team from pressing... | |
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