 O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words ! I marvel, thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus : thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.  Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered - Seite 73von John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1859 - 117 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Tom Tymoczko, Jim Henle - 2004 - 670 Seiten
...Mandarin, Hopi, or Urdu. Not surprisingly, Chomsky's views have generated considerable controversy. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST We've described how Sentential and some of its variants... | |
 | Uncas Slattery - 2000 - 392 Seiten
...charges. \o credit cards. Author, subject, EA\ bar code on every book. This One 5GP2-OTS-OQRA "They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. " — (William Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost 5. 1.37-38) CHAPTER ONE: Publisher's Introduction ............... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 Seiten
...Schumpeter, 1942, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, p. 21 54:31 MOTE: They [Holofernes and Nathaniel] have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps. COSTARD : O, they have lived long on the almsbasket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee... | |
 | Thomas Leech - 2001 - 328 Seiten
...upgrade your success. 59 Chapter 6 Is Your English Frittered? Overcoming Language Deficiencies They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. Moth, Love's Labour's Lost. 5, 1 Now we'll look at the other side of the language coin, exploring ways... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 208 Seiten
...language. The characteristically oral sense that speech is the man prevails. Armado and Holofernes have 'been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps', and if to speak is to be human, Armado hardly achieves that status. He does not speak, so much as utter... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 Seiten
...the toothache. First Gaoler — Cymbeline V.iv SPEECH AND LANGUAGE: "Wild and whirling words" They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. Moth — LLL Vi A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue. Princess — LLL V.ii His speech was like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 Seiten
...peace, well encounter'd. HOLOFERNES. Most military sir, salutation. MOTH [aside to COST ARD]. They sing her again. JULIET. You kiss by th' book. NURSE. Madam, you COSTARD. O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee... | |
 | Samuel Crowl - 2003 - 289 Seiten
...Though the remark is made about Don Armado, Holofernes, and Sir Nathaniel, Moth's pert comment, "They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps," could apply to the play's entire cast of characters. That language, in company high and low, is at... | |
 | John Field, Mal Leicester - 2003 - 348 Seiten
...whatever its aims, comem or organization; it took cognizance e if all their roles and ages. But we 'have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps'. Since then we have belahoured each other with recurrem, permanem, cominuing, community ediu atiim,... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 Seiten
...language. The characteristically oral sense that speech is the man prevails. Armado and Holofernes have 'been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps', and if to speak is to be human, Armado hardly achieves that status. He does not speak, so much as utter... | |
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