| 1836 - 866 páginas
...breeding, and, like our modern gentleman — but here the comparison drops — to write unintelligibly : " I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning." Hamlet should ever be " the glass of fashion ;" but, in... | |
| 1836 - 808 páginas
...affectation of not writing plainly : • I sat me down ; Devised a new commission ; wrote it fair. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair.' Supposing the signature to be W. Sk., there is no known author of the time to whom such an abbreviation... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1837 - 372 páginas
...expressed or disguised in playful satire. -I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness...fair, and laboured much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know The effect of what I wrote t HOR. Aye, good... | |
| mrs. Monkland - 1837 - 906 páginas
...writing is an occasional letter to a friend." " Oh, then, no doubt you write a fair Italian hand : ' I once did hold it, as our statists do, a baseness to write fair.' " Emma laughingly replied, " I certainly hold it ' no baseness' to write a tolerable hand." '' It is... | |
| Mrs. Monkland - 1839 - 232 páginas
...writing is an occasional letter to a friend." " Oh, then, no doubt you write a fair Italian hand : ' I once did hold it, as our statists do, a baseness to write fair.' " Emma laughingly replied, " I certainly hold it ' no baseness' to write a tolerable hand.'r " It is... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 páginas
...my brains, They had begun the play : — I sat me down ; Devised a new commission ; wrote it fair : I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness...fair, and laboured much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know The effect of what I wrote ? Hor. Ay, good... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 páginas
...my brains, They had begun the play : — I sat me down ; Devised a new commission ; wrote it fair : I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness...fair, and laboured much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know The effect of what I wrote ? Hor. Ay, good... | |
| Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1843 - 494 páginas
...Du Cange.6 A neat running epistolary hand is quite modern : except among papers, written by lawyers. Hamlet says, " I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair." • Du Cange, v. Interlinealura, b MS. Cott. Cleop. C. vi. p. 200. c Script, p. Bed. 518, b. d Notices... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 páginas
...prologue to my brains, They had begun the play : I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair : I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service : Wilt thou know... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 páginas
...to my brains, They had begun the play, — I sat me down, Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. 1 once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd muoh How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know... | |
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