 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1824 - 298 pages
...graunt to he a gentleman of an auncient house (so is many an English beggar), yet this clyme of ours hee cannot thrive in ; our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in; hee goes twitching and flopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 302 pages
...gentleman of an auncient bouse (so is many an English beggar), yet this clyrae of ours hee cannot tbrive in ; our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in ; hee goes twitching and hopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in... | |
 | 1829 - 682 pages
...celebrated Tom Nash, gave a just description of such English hexameter, when he says, " I grant it to be a gentleman of an ancient house—so is many...our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in,—he goes twisting and hopping, in our language, like a man running upon quagmires;—up the hill... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...graunt to be a gentleman of an auncient house (so is many an English beggar), yet this clyme of ours hee days of Shakspeare, and fortunately we can appeal to a few ; hee goes twitching and hopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1839 - 512 pages
...to be a gentleman of an auncient house (so is many an English beggar) ; yet this clyme of ours hee cannot thrive in ; our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in ; hee goes twitching and hopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 462 pages
...The Hexameter verse I grant to be a gentleman of an ancient house (so is many an English beggar), yet this clime of ours he cannot thrive in ; our speech...set his plough in ; he goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 472 pages
...The hexameter verse I grant to be a gentleman of an ancient house (so is many an English beggar), yet this clime of ours he cannot thrive in; our speech...set his plough in ; he goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 360 pages
...The Hexameter verse I grant to be a gentleman of an ancient house (so is many an English beggar), yet this clime of ours he cannot thrive in ; our speech...set his plough in ; he goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1842 - 310 pages
...The Hexameter Verse I grant to be a gentleman of an ancient house (so is many an English beggar), yet this clime of ours he cannot thrive in ; our speech is too craggy for him to Get his plough in ; he goes twitching and hopping like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1849 - 144 pages
...Gentleman of an auncieut house, (so is many an English begger,) yet this Clyme of ours he cannot thriue in ; our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in, hee goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running vpon quagmiers, vp the hill in one... | |
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... he goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in another, retaining no part of that stately smooth gait which he vaunts himself with among the Greeks and Latins. 
