 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 páginas
...Arm. Men of peace, well encountered. Hoi. Most military sir, salutation. Motb. [Aside to COSTARD.] men have ill luck too : Antonio, as I heard in Genoa, — Shy. What Cost. [Aside to MOTH.] Oh, they have lived long on the alms-basket1» of words. I marvel thy master... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - 1971 - 740 páginas
...pieces of food, fragmente and relics of a banquet: disda-n to him disdained — s ta give, Lucr. 987. they have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the — s, LLL V, 1, 40. those — s are good deeds past, Trail. HI, 3, 148. the fragments, — s, the... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 páginas
...with his own gastronomic metaphor for the pedants' morphological follies, is swallowable-whole: Moth. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. Cost. O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee... | |
 | Barbara Stoler Miller - 1994 - 622 páginas
...Saleem Sinai recall those of Shakespeare's word-eaters in Love's Labour's Lost, of whom it is said, They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps." Rushdie's acknowledged inspiration in his use of English is GV Desani, whose remarkable novel All About... | |
 | Andrew Davison - 1995 - 250 páginas
...virtue in 'if'", As You Like It V.4.108). Shakespeare disparaged BASIC on the ground that its designers "have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps" [Love's Labour's Lost V.1.39], though exactly which SIGPLAN banquet he had in mind is not clear. He... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 páginas
...Men of peace, well encountered. HOLOFBRNBS. Most military sir, salutation. MOTH [aride to COSTARD]. ` 3 COSTARD. O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee... | |
 | Mervin Block - 1997 - 332 páginas
...ring for President, and now it's a whole new ballgame." As Shakespeare put it, and he was tuned in: "They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps." When it comes to scrapping cliches, experts disagree. Several experts say some cliches have a saving... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 páginas
...long scene (5. 1) in which Armado, Holofernes, and Nathaniel demonstrate that (as the page Mote says) 'They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps', at the end of which Dull responds to Holofernes' accurate statement: 'Thou hast spoken no word all... | |
 | 1908 - 444 páginas
...the phrase applied to those who lived upon public charity in Jonson's day. Cf. LLL 5. 1. 31 : Moth. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. Cost. O ! they have liv'd long on the alms-basket of words. 32 Braue pluTh, and voluet-mon. Velvet... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - 1998 - 228 páginas
...to maintain an ironic detachment from his supposed superiors and their extraordinary conversation: 'They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps' (vi36-7). Of course I did have to address the question of ageing down. For once I was grateful for... | |
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O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon. 
