 | Samuel Butler - 1801 - 528 páginas
...much, 'Tis plain enough he was no fuch. 45 We grant, altho' he had much wit, H' was very my or'ufing it; As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about, v. 38. As Montaigne, playing -with hts cat, — Compla'msjhe thought him butanafs.] "When I am play... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 páginas
...because they were hid from ages. Gisnv. We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very ttiy of using it, As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about< Hailibrat, 4. To exclude. 3. Keeping at a distance ; unwilling to approach. A shy fellow was the duke... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 páginas
...of a miser with respect to his holiday suit. The irony is displayed particularly in the couplet : " As being loth to wear it out, " And therefore bore it not about." On the subject of irony I shall have something more to add, when I treat of the figures of rhetoric.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 506 páginas
...learning, ai he says of his knight's wit,— We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about ; for it was ready on all occasions ; and, like his Taleacotius, whose doctrine, however, he has inaccurately... | |
 | George Dyer - 1812 - 240 páginas
...shy of using it, * Introduction to the third book of the Faerie Queeue. TO THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. 1Q As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about ; for it was ready on all occasions ; and, like his Taliacotius, whose doctrine, however, he has inaccurately... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 páginas
...unexpected. "f The following is a proper example. We grant although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out ; And therefore bore it not about. Unless on holidays, or so, As men their best apparel do. ffudi6ras, Canto i. Wit is of all the most... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 páginas
...mueh; 'Tis plain enough he was not sueh. We grant, although he had mueh wit, He was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about; Unless on holy-days, or so, As men their best apparel do. Beside 'tis known he eould speak Greek As... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...much ; T,- plain enough he was not such. We grant, although he had much wit, 1 ! was very shy of using low t / ; Unless on holidays or so, As men their best apparel do. Beeide, 'tis known he could speak Greek As... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...mueh ; 'Tis plain enough he was not sueh. We grant, although he had mueh wit, H' was very shy of using lliam Hazl ; Unless on holidays or so, As men their best apparel do. Beside, 'tis known he eould speak Greek As... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 páginas
...stated. 0;' Iludibrass it is said ; " We grant, although he had much wit. He was very shy of using it ; As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about ; Unless on Holidays, or so, As men their best apparel do." Now there is nothing ludicrous in the assertion,... | |
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Tis plain enough he was no such; We grant, although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it; As being loth to wear it out. And therefore bore it not about, Unless on holy-days, or so, As men their best apparel do. 
