 | English drama - 1828 - 344 pages
...drinking, prick out my eyes with a balladma/cer's pert" — and again, in the first part of Henry IV.— " I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." Independent of the above, are many otlier sources from which this induction might have been borrowed.... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1828 - 346 pages
...prick out my eyes with a balladmaker's pen" — and again, in the first part of Henry IV. — " I bad rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers" Independent of the above, are many other sources from which this induction might have been borrowed.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...virtue that was never seen in you. Hol. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart ; I had rather he a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same...turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; "1'i- like the forc'd... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...boy, of the king and the beggar ? The world was very guilty of euch ballade some three ages since. Id. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew. Than one of these same metre ioUod-mongera. Id. The ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddle. • Milton. More solid things... | |
 | 1829 - 354 pages
...with fame, And to posterity consigns the glory of his name ! 1888. THETA. THE JOURNEYMAN RHYMER. " I'd rather be a kitten and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-makers : I'd rather hear a brazen candlestick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle tree,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 pages
...ornament ; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I am glad of 't with all my heart ; I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one...metre ballad-mongers . I had rather hear a brazen canstickq turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...ornament ; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart ; I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one...same metre ballad-mongers: I had rather hear a brazen cànstick' turn'd. Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth. ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS. A SATIRE. 1 1 had rather be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." SHAKSPEARE ' Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too."... | |
 | William Toone - 1832 - 584 pages
...who deals in ballad writing; but Shakspeare gives it in the sense of a writer or composer of ballads. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew. Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. \ PART K. HEN. iv. BALLADRY, the stile or manner of ballads. What though the greedy fry Be taken with... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 350 pages
...chance is theirs, to be of use. New stcai I Abbey, 1808. ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS, A SATIRE. ' I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." SHAKSPEARB. ' Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true. There are as mad, abandon'd critics... | |
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I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; —... 
