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" He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. "
The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ... - Page 110
1815
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

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,...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 65

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...
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Journal of the Institute of Metals, Volume 27

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...
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Annals of Medical Practice, Volume 1

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...
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Verständigungsprobleme in Shakespeares Dramen

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...
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When the Theater Turns to Itself: The Aesthetic Metaphor in Shakespeare

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,...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

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?"-...
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Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the Comedies

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,...
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Explorations in Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Essays in Honor of Leonard B. Meyer

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...
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Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party

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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