 | 1909 - 1118 pàgines
...The 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... | |
 | 1888 - 714 pàgines
...contemporaneous 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 pàgines
...too picked, 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 pàgines
...Listening to 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,... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pàgines
...complains 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,... | |
 | Joseph Crosby - 1986 - 368 pàgines
...the certificate of scholarship forthcoming, from a sharp "board." As Holofernes says of the Don—"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." But I had better cry a halt to my nonsense, or you may give me a hint to look out for my own "verbosity."—... | |
 | Leonard B. Meyer, Eugene Narmour, Ruth A. Solie - 494 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 324 pàgines
...not easy to discount Mackail's objection that the narrator, like Don Adriano in Love's Labour's Lost, 'draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument' ( p. 67), or Snider's that two characters, the narrator and especially the 'reverend man', are introduced... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - 1996 - 422 pàgines
...Kirchin (London, 1915), p. 149 (Book II.xviii.8); and the description of Armado in Love's Labor's Lost ("He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument" Vi16). See also John Grange's The Golden Aphroditis (London, 1577), whose lines ("A bottome for your... | |
 | Patricia A. Parker - 1996 - 408 pàgines
...Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (book II.xviii.8); the description of Armado in Love's Labor's Lost ("He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument"); Grange's Garden ( 1577), whose lines ("A bottome for your silke it seemes / My letters are become,... | |
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 
