 | Leonard B. Meyer, Eugene Narmour, Ruth A. Solie - 494 頁
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 頁
...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, as to speak 4 affection) OF; affectation ij 9 hominem] F3; hominum OF IS-I Hr ... table-book] o (Draw-out his Table-booke.),... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 324 頁
...not easy to 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 頁
...SIR NATHANIEL. A most singular and choice epithet. [Draws out his table-book. HOLOFERNES. He diaweth ne: — QUINCE. О monstrous! О strange! we are haunted. — Pray, masters! fly, ma fanática) phantasms, such insociable and point-device companions; such rackets of orthography, as... | |
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. 
