...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 companions; such rackers of orthography,...

...Shakespeare Problem Re-stated, and sum up his views, if he remembers old Holofernes, by saying, ' He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.' 5 The Dedication of the First Folio which is addressed to ' William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlaine...

...literature generally. She is garrulous, but not like him of whom Master Holofernes said, " He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." She loved the marvellous, and is minute in her descriptions of the incredible. It was an age when mankind...

...too spruce, too affected, too odd, äs it were, too peregrinate, äs I may call it. 155 He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. * (LLL V. i. 8-12, 14-15) Schon Terence Hawkes hat in seiner Interpretation p von Love s Labour s Lost...

...Holofernes on stage we can be both amused and yet dismayed by his mad rape of the language: He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-device companions; such rackers of orthography,...

...loudly of Armado's (metaplastic) violation of what he takes to be correct pronunciation: He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography,...

...March of 1825 complained that "the author has spun it out to so unusual a length, that he has drawn out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument" ("C," 91) and, in another case, that "its length alone will be a never- failing cause of complaint...

...discount Mackail's objection that the narrator, like Don Adriano in Love's Labour's Lost, 'draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument' ( p. 67), or Snider's that two characters, the narrator and especially the 'reverend man', are introduced...

...Advancement of Learning (book II.xviii.8); the description of Armado in Love's Labor's Lost ("He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument"); Grange's Garden ( 1577), whose lines ("A bottome for your silke it seemes / My letters are become,...

...1915), p. 149 (Book II.xviii.8); and the description of Armado in Love's Labor's Lost ("He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument" Vi16). See also John Grange's The Golden Aphroditis (London, 1577), whose lines ("A bottome for your...