 | Evangeline Maria O'Connor - 1887 - 444 pages
...generosity and courage. ButFalstaff! unimitated, unimitable Falstaff ! how shall I describe thee I thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be...which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief and a glutton, a coward and a boaster; always ready to cheat the weak and prey upon the poor; to terrify... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 438 pages
...1 uniinitated, unimitable Palstaff 1 how shall I describe thee t thou compound of sense and rice ; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed ;...which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief and a glutton, a coward and a boaster ; always ready to cheat the weak and prey upon the poor ; to terrify... | |
 | Evangeline Maria O'Connor - 1887 - 440 pages
...generosity and courage. But Falstaff ! unimitated, unimitable Palstaff ! how shall 1 describe thee ? thou compound of sense and vice ; of sense which may be...of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested. Palstaff is a character loaded with faults, and with those faults which naturally produce contempt.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...ofjohnson, iv. 32o. BUT Falstaff, unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee? Thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be...which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief and a glutton, a coward and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak and prey upon the poor ; to terrify... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Wit and humor - 1894 - 460 pages
...Falstaff.] "Falstaff," says Dr. Johnson, "unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee f Thou compound of sense and vice ; of sense which may be...despised, but hardly detested ! Falstaff ... is a thief and a glutton, a coward and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak and prey upon the poor... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...Shakespeare, viii. 472' ' But Falstaff, unimitated, nnimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee ? Thou compound of sense and vice ; of sense which may be...which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak and prey upon the poor; to terrify... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1897 - 512 pages
...Falstaff, unimitated, unimitable FalstafF, how shall I describe thee? Thou compound of sense and yice ; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed, of...which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak and prey upon the poor; to terrify... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 236 pages
...generosity and courage. But Falstaff — unimitated, unimitable Falstaff — how shall I describe thee? thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be...naturally produce contempt. .He is a thief and. a glutton, a coward and a boaster; always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the poor — to terrify... | |
 | Elise Lathrop - Geography in literature - 1906 - 326 pages
...Mrs. Ford fresh ridiculous situations in which to involve " Falstaff, unimitated, inimitable Falstaff, compound of sense and vice, of sense which may be...vice which may be despised, but hardly detested," as Johnson describes him, to suspect the plans and schemes of their daughter. The second scene of this... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - 670 pages
...constant effrontery, so 1 " Falstaff, unimitated, inimitable Falstaff ! how shall I describe thee? Thou compound of sense and vice — of sense which may...of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested. . . . He is stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes, so that his licentiousness is not so offensive... | |
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Falstaff, how shall I describe thee! thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed; of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested. Falstaff is a character loaded with faults, and with those faults which naturally... 
