 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 428 pagine
...language, without any determinate idea ; such language as parrots are taught to speak. So, in Hudibras: " Could tell what subt'lest parrots mean, " That speak,...member 'tis of whom they talk, " When they cry rope, tjnd walk, knave walk." The following passage m Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique, 1553. •hews that this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pagine
...the saffron face Revel and feast it at my house to day, Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut, " What member 'tis of whom they talk, " When they cry rope, and walk, knave, walk." WAEBURTON. • 8 Mark, how he TREMBLES in his ECSTACY !] So, in Venus and Adonis, 1593 : " And trembling... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pagine
...parrot prophesies. To this, Butler hints, where, speaking of Ralpho's skill in augury, he says : " Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, " That speak, and think contrary clean ; ANT. E. Wilt thou still talk ? [Beats him. CoUR. How say you now ? is not your husband mad ? ADR.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 532 pagine
...that Vere adept us earned* He understood the speech of birds, As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; 550 What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry Rope, and walk, knave, walk. He'd extract numbers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pagine
...are taught to speak. So, in Budibrat : " Could tell what subt'lest parrots mean, " That speak, aud think contrary clean; " What member 'tis of whom they...talk, " When they cry rope, and walk, knave walk." M ALONE. (9| It may mean, that be shall swell up her eyes with blows, till she shall seem to peep with... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ! Could tell what subtlest parroe? ation, Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd',...the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and He'd extract numbers out of matter, And keep them in a glass, like water, Of SOV' reign power to make... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 458 pagine
...are these your customers6? phecy may be understood by means of the following lines in Hudibras: — ' Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak...talk, When they cry rope, and walk, knave, walk.' 5 This tremor was anciently thought to be a sure indication of being possessed by the devil. Caliban... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pagine
...your customers 6 ? phecy may be understood by means of the following lines in Hudibras : — ' Conld tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think...member 'tis of whom they talk, When they cry rope, and 1co/i, knave, walk.' * This tremor was anciently thought to be a sure indication of being possessed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pagine
...your customers 6 ? phecy may be understood by means of the following lines in Hudibras:— ' Conld tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think...contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk, 6 ' A customer,' says Malone, ' is used in Othello for a common woman. Here it seems to signify one... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 pagine
...he that Vere adeptus earned. He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean : 550 signify Scientia superabundans ; which his commentatator, Cornelius Agrippa, by over- magnifying,... | |
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He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and 
