...1 may call it. Natk. 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. 1 abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise || companions; such rackers of orthography,...

...secrecy." f * Act I. sc.l. f ActV. sc.l. But the remark of Holofernes is already justified : " He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."* Yet with all its diversity of characters, poetic beauties, wit, and sentences, Love's Labour's Lost...

...sweet heart, I do implore secrecy." f But the remark of Holofernes is already justified : " He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." * Yet with all its diversity of characters, poetic beauties, wit, and sentences, Love's Labour's Lost...

...I may call it. ffath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Taket out hit tabk-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such unsociable and point-devise^ companions ; such rackers of orthography,...

...speaks without stopping to take breath, with ease, with point, with elegance, and without "spinning the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." He may be said to weave words into any shapes he pleases for use or ornament, as the glass-blower moulds...

...vainglorious, boastful. 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 fantastical phantasms, such insociable and pointdevise 6 companions ; such rackers of...

...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 fantasms, such insociable and point-devise 8 companions ; such rakers of orthography,...

...MrGibbon sometimes draws out the thread of hit verbosity finer than the staple of his argument* :" that, " in endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms, he too frequently...that would" be rich enough for the noblest ideas." That " we are too often remind^ ed of that great man Mr. Prig, whose manner was so inimitably fine,...

...is very often obscure. 17 its due share of praise, lie remarks that, " Mr. " Gibbon sometimes draws out the thread of his " verbosity finer than the staple of his argu" ment*:" that, " in endeavouring to avoid " vulgar terms, he too frequently dignifies " trifles,...

...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...