 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pàgines
...expressed or disguised in playful satire. < • I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labored much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou... | |
 | Henry Whitelock Torrens - 1854 - 468 pàgines
...are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not, * Walsingham in Meyrick, vol. ii. f Thus in Hamlet— ' I once did hold it as our statists do, A baseness to write fair ; but, Sir, now It did me Yeoman's service." For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pàgines
...earlier day. (Witness Hamlet's language : I sat me down; Devised a new commission ; wrote it fair : I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning. f) So again when he resolved on a country life — he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 380 pàgines
...prologue to my brains, They had begun the play : I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair : I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour' d much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service : Wilt thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 734 pàgines
...brains, They had begun the play, — I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair : — I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service : — wilt... | |
 | Delia Salter Bacon - 1857 - 706 pàgines
...observes, rarely to be seen in very learned hands), carefully seeking a reputation by better qualities.' I once did hold it, as our statists do, a baseness to write fair : but now it did me yeoman's service. — Hamlet. And it is in the next paragraph to this, that he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pàgines
...my brains, They had begun the play : — I sat me down ; Devised a new commission ; wrote it fair : I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labored much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 352 pàgines
...my brains, They had begun the play, • - I sat me down, Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. 1 once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, Sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 730 pàgines
...brains, They had begun the play, — I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair : — 1 once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service : — wilt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pàgines
...ridicule which, in " Hamlet," (Act v. BC. 2,) he throws upon such as affected to write illegibly : " I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair." — VoL vp 596. In truth, many of his dramatic contemporaries wrote excellently : Ben Jonson's penmanship... | |
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I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. 
