 | 1829 - 838 Seiten
...out their places as they may do, and our fellow-creatures walk the earth, looking " as if 'Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitate humanity so abominably." Where similar accidents of education, and similar associations of mind, have concurred,... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 Seiten
...the glorious faculty of speech, that, with Shakspearc, we may say, it seems as if " some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well,— they imitate humanity so abominably." The reason of the general ignorance of speech, from which such a state of things results,... | |
 | 1854 - 792 Seiten
...broods hatched in the forcing house of society, to hop about half fledged, looking, " as if nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitate humanity so abominably " — however, let us leave there the genus homo, and turn to the flock of pretty creatures,... | |
 | 1854 - 712 Seiten
...broods hatched in the forcing house of society, to hop about half fledged, looking, '; as if nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitate humanity so abominably " — however, let us leave there the genus homo, and turn to the flock of pretty creatures,... | |
 | 1860 - 562 Seiten
...gait of Christian, Pagan or man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitate humanity so abominably ! " What ! (say such teachers) " do you mean to say that the pupil should be taught to... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1862 - 178 Seiten
...meanwhile, as in case of the figures named before, one would think with Hamlet, that ' some of nature' s journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitate humanity so abominably? The Morn by Lough, and the sacred subject rashly touched by Adams, take rank under the... | |
 | 1875 - 252 Seiten
...ago. The censure of Hamlet appears to me to meet this case exactly : it seems as if " some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well ; they imitate humanity so abominably." After having expressed my dislike to the abuse of the pencil, it would be unpardonable... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1873 - 256 Seiten
...notorious that some of our first-rate orators in the senate deliver themselves " as if some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, — they imitate humanity so abominably." An alternate rising and falling, and falling and rising, a continual pumping out, as... | |
 | Henry Milton Walker - 1906 - 142 Seiten
...souls, if they are let alone, and are healthy. SEEKING THE IMPOSSIBLE "I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitate humanity u abominably," — Hamlet. HE old man's head was white with years, and he •*• walked with feeble... | |
 | 1914 - 894 Seiten
...abuse the glorious faculty of speech, that with Shakspere, we may say, it seems as if "some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well — they imitate humanity so abominably." The reason of the general ignorance of speech, from which such a state of things results,... | |
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... tickle the ears of the groundlings." We allude to the loud mouthed ranting style — the tearing of every thing to shivers — which is so much the ambition of some of our players, particularly the younger ones. It does in such cases truly seem as... 
