...thrasonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd as it were, too peregrinate as I may call it. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable companions, such rackers of orthography as to speak...

...without AFFECTION,] ic affectation, a souse common in Shakespeare and other writers of his time. Hol. 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,...

...peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [ Takes out his table-book. Hol. 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 0 companions ; such rackers of orthography,...

...doctor, spread throughout the land, and caused a wonderful sensation in his favour. A CHAPTER III. "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." — LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. THUS, then, matters stood at Michael Hardey's death. A great town had risen...

...peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [ Takes nut his table-book. Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantosms, such insociable and point-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography,...

...subtle disputant, too, and enter eagerly on a controversy, to gratify his own love of talking, — for "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." The vulgar applaud him to the very echo of praise, and his name is coupled with the terms " eloquence...

...He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were too peregrinate, as I may call it. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." Act v. Sc. 1. and patronage of the Earl of Southampton in any spirit of contempt, or for the purpose...

...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...

...perigrinate, as I may call it. Natlt. 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,...

...PRrMTERS, WHITKFRIARS. •t I MR. LUSHINGTON'S ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF BROAD GAUGE AND BREAKS OF GAUGE. " He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." — Lov&s Labour's Lost. THE occasion which has called forth this demonstration in favour of Broad...