...can be expressed of the Doctor's work, may be given in the language of Shakspeare, " that he draws the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." That there are two or three brilliant passages, we wiU readily allow; but even these are overlaid with...

...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [ Takes out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise ' companions ; such rackers of orthography,...

...little attention to. He is in no danger of running into Don Adriano de Armado's error of " drawing out the thread of his " verbosity finer than the staple of " his argument." The author should have filled up the portrait, and he would by that means have made bis essay more...

...little attention to. He is in no danger of running into Don Adriano de Armado's error of " drawing out the thread of his " verbosity finer than the staple of " his argument." The author should have filled up the portrait, and he would by that means have made his essay more...

...theory which Bolingbroke is supposed to have given him, and which he expanded into verse. But " he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." All that he says, " the very words, and to the self-same tune," would prove just as well that whatever...

...perversion of language, for the pleasure of turning the Scripture into rihaldry, or of culling Jesus an impostor. Though his style is in general correct...elegant, he sometimes draws out " the thread of his verhosity finer than the staple of his argument." In endeavouring to avoid vulgar terms he too frequently...

...Herrys, may, perhaps, incur the charge of diffuseness ; we, however, do not think the poet has weaved " the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." " I've seen, indeed, the hopeful bud Of a ruddy rose, that stood Blushing to behold the ray Of the...

...Herrys, may, perhaps, incur the charge of diffuseness; we, however, do not think the poet has weaved " the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." " I've seen, indeed,:the hopeful bud Of a ruddy rose, that stood Blushing to behold the rav Of the...

...Hermaphroditus." MALONE. . A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table-book. HOL. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms 6 , such insociable and pointdevise 7 companions ; such rackers of...

...I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devise 8 companions; such rackers of orthography,...