 Shakespeare's text; of whom one ridicules his errors with airy petulance, suitable enough to the levity of the controversy; the other attacks them with gloomy malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like...  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 136by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...afraid that girls with spits, and boys with stones, should slay him in puny battle ; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings * like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...afraid that " girls with spits, and boys with stones, should slay him in puny battle ; " when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings * like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him. \Vhen I think on one, with his confederates, I remember the danger of Coriolanus, who was afraid that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...afraid that girls with spits, and boys with stones, should slay him in puny battle ; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...danger of Coriolanus, who was afraid that girls with spifs, and boys with stones, should slay him in puny battle; when the other crosses my imagination,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...leave inflammations and gangrene behind him. When 1 think on one, with his confederates, I remember the danger of Coriolanus, who was afraid that girls... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. ' The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...other bites like a viper, and would be glad to leave inflammation and gangrene behind him. When I think on one, with his confederates, I remember the danger... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...inflammations and gangrene behind him. When I think ou one, with his confederates, I, remember the danger of Coriolanus, who was afraid that girls with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 460 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for more ; the other bites likes a viper, and would be glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him. When I think on one,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings ike a fly, sucks a little blood, takes n espeare Coriolanns, who was afraid that " girls with spits, and boys with stones, should slay him in pnnv battle... | |
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