 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 458 pàgines
...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...ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,3 Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; (9) A cantlc is a corner, or piece of any thing. canton,... | |
 | Robert Hutchinson Rose - 1810 - 208 pàgines
...which they call poetry, composed of a medley of childish and rustick phrases, pours from the Press. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre-ballad mongers. FROM THE FRENCH. L'autre jour Colin malade Dedans son lit, D'une grosse maladie... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pàgines
...helpful 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...metre ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstick1 turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 pàgines
...helpful 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...these same metre ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a braaen canstick* turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree; And that would set my teeih nothing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pàgines
...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...ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,3 Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; (9) A cantle is a corner, or piece of any thing. —... | |
 | 1812 - 422 pàgines
...endeavours at the falsetto ! " So swells each windpipe, sss intones to ass Discordant twang." POPE. •' I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same stupid silly songsters." i SHAKESPEARE. These quotations apply to a more miserable set, not imitators,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 pàgines
...entament ; Л v ii i ut.- that wa» 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 of these same metre ballad-monger» : I had rather hear a brazen canstick tum'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ;... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...Shakes the old beldame J'.arth, and topples down Steeples and moss-grown towers. On miserable Rhymeri. \ had rather be a kitten and cry — mew. Than one of these same metre-ballad-mongers j I had rather hear a brazen canstick tura'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 372 pàgines
...in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart; I had rather be a killen, and cry—mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstic turn'd, 3 . Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; [1] Owen Glendower, whose real name was... | |
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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 ; —... 
