 | 1828 - 358 pàgines
...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 - 1811 - 436 pàgines
...perigrinate, as 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, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pàgines
...affectation. 6 thrasonical.] Boastful, bragging, Jrom Terence. 7 He w too picked,]- nicely drest. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical Unit asms, such insociable and point-devise * companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pàgines
...perigrinate, as 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 insociable and point-devise companions ; 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 pàgines
...calling Jesus an impostor. Though his style is, in general, correct and elegant, he sometimes draws out " the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently dignifies trifles, and clothes common thoughts... | |
 | 1817 - 368 pàgines
...can be expressed of the Doctor's work, may be given in the language of Shakspeare, " that he draws the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." That there are two or three brilliant passages, we wiU readily allow; but even these are overlaid with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pàgines
...perigrinate, as 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 insociable and point-devise ' companions ; such rackers of orthography,... | |
 | 1818 - 762 pàgines
...little attention to. He is in no danger of running into Don Adriano de Armado's error of " drawing out the thread of his " verbosity finer than the staple of " his argument." The author should have filled up the portrait, and he would by that means have made his essay more... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pàgines
...theory which Bolingbroke is supposed to have given him, and which he expanded into verse. But " he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." All that he says, " the very words, and to the self-same tune," would prove just as well that whatever... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pàgines
...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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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 
