 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 页
...them how the wind sue; as take a straw, and ihrow it up into the air, you shall see by that wliich way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the time so well as ballads and libels. — SHLUF.N: ïabU - Talk : l.ibfls.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 页
...them how the wind siis; as take a straw, and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that winch of one of the pretenders to her hand, show the complexion of the time so well as ballads and libels.—SBLDEN : Table-Talk: Libels. In the... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1893 - 566 页
...LIBELS, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: As take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that, which way the wind is, which you shall...complexion of the times so well as BALLADS and Libels. SKLDBN'S TARLE-TALK. Kupferstich, beschrieben im letzten Absatz der Einleitung zu Richard of Almaigne.... | |
 | John Knox - 1895 - 592 页
...has remarked, " Though some make slight of libels. yet you may see by them how the wind sits. . . . More solid things do not shew the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels." — (Edit. by Dr Irving, p. 107, Edin. 1854.) The mutilated statue of Pasquino still exists, at the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 482 页
...of Libels, yet you may see by them how the wind fits: as take a straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is; which...do by casting up a Stone. More solid things do not show the Complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. MARRIAGE OF ALL Actions of a man's... | |
 | Alexander Meyrick Broadley - 1906 - 520 页
...pamphlets, yet you may see by them how the wind sits; as, take a straw, and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which...do by casting up a stone; more solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and pamphlets."—JOHN SELDEN. LONDON EFFINGHAM... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1906 - 594 页
...sheets, " yet you may see by them how the wind sits ; as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels."... | |
 | Joseph Rodgers - 1908 - 488 页
...That be of freebore blode ; I shall you tell of a good yeman, His name was Robyn Hode." Old Ballad. " More solid things do not shew the complexion of the times so well as ballads . . . "— JOHN SOLDAN'S Table Talk. "And yet I think these Oaks at dawn and even, Or in the balmy... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis - 1909 - 334 页
...of Libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : As take a straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is, which...Complexion of the times so well, as Ballads and Libels." For libels read advertisements, and you have a motto for this book. And so I congratulate our author... | |
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THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion... 
