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The Life of Edward Gibbon: With Selections from His Correspondence and ... - Page 204
by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 357 pages
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 1

Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...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...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 22

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...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,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...I may call it. Nath. 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™ companions ; such rackers of orthography,...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 4

1830 - 428 pages
...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,...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...may call it. Jfalh. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his 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-devise1 companions ; such rackers of orthography,...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...may call it. Jftttk. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out ha table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor sneh fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise* companions ; such rackcrs of orthography,...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...estimation. In allusion to his name, the monarch thus quotes from Love's Labour 'i Lost : ' He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms ; such insociable and point-device companions ; such rackers of orthography."...
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A practical essay on casual and habitual intoxication: lectures

Thomas Dodgson - Alcoholism - 1832 - 190 pages
...tongue now talks with forcible naivete at the head's cost — and it is no wonder that he should " spin the thread of his verbosity, finer than the staple of his argument." Self-love now creeps out, and every restraint being completely withdrawn, we see the most ridiculous...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...may call it. AB//I. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out hit table-boot. Hot. He draweth After the death of Davetit, 1663, it was bought ށ 0 I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devise J) companions; such rakers of orthography,...
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