| Patrick MacDonell - 1840 - 74 páginas
...strange fish ; were I in England now (as once I was), and had this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there, but would give a piece of silver ; there would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." This is correctly true ; the desire of seeing strange sights, still strongly prevails among the English... | |
| George Agar Hansard - 1840 - 594 páginas
...journey to * " Were I in England now as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool but would give a piece of silver ; there would this...give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay down ten to see a dead Indian.'' — Tempest. f Travels in the Levant, p. 72. INTRODUCTION. Xltl Packanock,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 páginas
...fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell ; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish ! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold... | |
| William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 páginas
...transcendental for my poor abilities to cope with. THE ENGLISH FOND OF STRANGE SIGHTS. Trinculo. A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian ! Tempest. Act ii. Scene 2. FOND OF HAVING TOO MCCH OF A GOOD THING. Falstaff. It was always yet the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 páginas
...; and thus, he that brought home " a dead Indian " or " a strange fish " was sure to be rewarded. " Were I in England now (as once I was), and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." So learned Trinculo, in the ' Tempest,' reprehends our countrymen. But they were not far wrong, if... | |
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1841 - 506 páginas
...apparently as acceptable as it was to the easy belief of earlier times. " What have we here? A strange fish! Were I in England now (as once I was), and had but...make a man ; any strange beast there makes a man." (Tempest, Act II. Scene 2.) The more ignorant the population the more immoveable they are found to... | |
| George Agar Hansard - 1841 - 574 páginas
...journey to * " Were I in England now as once I was, and had but this li-.li painted, not a holiday fool but would give a piece of silver ; there would this...give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay down ten to see a dead Indian.'' — Tempest. f Travels in the Levant, p. 72. Packanock, the habitation... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1842 - 394 páginas
...painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man4; any strange beast there makes a man : when they will...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms ! Warm, <i' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion,. hold... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 páginas
...held up to scorn the first of these foibles in an admirable strain of sarcasm: — " A strange fish ! Were I in England now (as once I was), and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian ;" (act ii. sc. 2) a passage which Mr. Douce hasvery appositely illustrated by a quotation from Batman.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 páginas
...kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now (as once I was), and had this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold... | |
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