 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 460 pages
...Vindicated one is reminded of what Dr Johnson says of Heath and the latter's criticisms of Warburton : he ' bites like a viper and would be glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him.' — ED. IO, II. Law . . . Custome] CAPELL'S assertion (p. 173) that these refer to the laws and customs... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 462 pages
...Vindicated one is reminded of what Dr Johnson says of Heath and the latter's criticisms of Warburton: he ' bites like a viper and would be glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him.'—ED. lo, II. Law . . . Custome] CAPEI.L'S assertion (p. 173) that these refer to the laws and... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 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 - Courts and courtiers - 1904 - 438 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or an 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.' — ED.] Cuckow, Cuckow : O word of feare, 991 Vnpleafing to a married eare. Winter. When Ificles hang... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Courts and courtiers - 1904 - 450 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or an 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." — ED.] Cuckow, Cuckow : O word of feare, 991 Vnpleafing to a married eare. Winter. When Ificles hang... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 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 - Drama - 1913 - 564 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or an 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.' In the present instance the chance was too good for Edwards to lose; accordingly (p. 100) he shows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1913 - 556 pages
...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or an 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.' In the present instance the chance was too good for Edwards to lose; accordingly (p. 100) he shows... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 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,... | |
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