 | William Toone - 1832 - 532 páginas
...ballad writing; but Shakspeare gives it in the sense of a writer or composer of ballads. . ..:...•. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, : Than one of these same metre ballad-mvngers. 1 PART K. His. IT. BALLADRY, the stile or manner of ballads. What though the greedy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 522 páginas
...ornament : A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I 'm glad of it with all my heart: I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one...ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstick 1 turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth-nothing on edge, Nothing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 páginas
...I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, ACT III. Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers: 1 BtBuB that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; "Tis like the forc'd gait... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - 1971 - 782 páginas
...Ado I, 1, 254. Wint. V, 2, 27. Cor. IV, 5, 235. Ballad-monger, term of contempt for a bal ladmaker: / had rather be a kitten and cry mew than one of these same metre —s, H4A III, 1, 130. Ballast, to load: who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast, Err. Ill,... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1840 - 344 páginas
...by the Chronicler. Perhaps it was to introduce Hotspur's disclaimer of such effeminate practices. " I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. I'd rather hear a brazen canstick tum'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1927 - 782 páginas
...which rift Imprison" d thou didst painfully remain A doaen years.') (/. Henry if., PH. iii. : • I'd rather be a kitten and cry Mew Than one of these same metre balladmakers.') Hamlet. (Hamlet I. II. : ' Thongh yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death.') She. 23.... | |
 | Philip W. Martin - 1982 - 268 páginas
...point about Byron's criticism forcibly. Peacock: His Circle and His Age (Cambridge, 1969), p. 194. 39. 'I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew! / Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.' 40. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 174. 41. Ibid., 278. 42. Ibid., 919. 43. Arthur Melville Clark,... | |
 | Vincent Newey, Ann Thompson - 1991 - 316 páginas
...those of his host, his bluffness looks crude. Court music and a street ballad are all the same to him: I had rather be a kitten and cry 'mew' Than one of...a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry — (III.i.123-28)... | |
 | James McCorkle - 1990 - 608 páginas
...the moonstruck "romantic" Qlendower, in words that are almost prophetic of the manifestos to come: / had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. After Shakespeare, Wordsworth is the precursor of free verse in getting poetry to expand its capacity... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1992 - 256 páginas
...virtue that was never seen in you," Hotspur shoots back: Marry, and I am glad of it, with all my heart. I had rather be a kitten and cry "mew" Than one of...ballad-mongers. I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothin... | |
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I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; —... 
