 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 596 頁
...eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. ... He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. — Shakespeare, Lovds Labors Lost, act v. sc. 1 (1594). Armande (2 syl.), daughter of Chrysale (2... | |
 | Ruth A. Solie - 2004 - 235 頁
...in March 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' "14 and, in another case, that "its length alone will be a never-failing cause of complaint to those... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 353 頁
...I may call it. 15 NATHANIEL A most singular and choice epithet. Draw out his table book. HOLOFERNES 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 orthog- 20 raphy, as to speak... | |
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