...call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his fable-book. IIol. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms. such unsociable and point-devise£I companions ; such rackers or...

...discoveries ; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. 11 — iii. 6. 200. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-device11 companions, such rackers of orthography....

...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Draws out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography,...

...call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [ Takes out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography,...

...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Draws out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise* companions : such rackers of orthography,...

...more it is drawn out. We have a similar metaphor in English ; where a person is said " to draw out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument ; " quoted from one of Foote's farces by Person in his Letters to Travis, if I rightly remember. Ficinus...

...theory which Bolingbroke is supposed to have given him, and which he expanded into verse. But " he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." All that he says, " the very words, and to the self-same tune," would prove just as well that whatever...

...illustrations were apt and pointed ; his elocution flowing and graceful. Unlike duller mortals, he never spun 'the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.' He was a great talker, and fitted to enlighten, instruct, and adorn society. His conversation was lively...

...illustrations were apt and pointed ; his elocution flowing and graceful. Unlike duller mortals, he never spun ' the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.' He was a great talker, and fitted to enlighten, instruct and adorn society. His conversation was lively...

...the scholars by the ladies. Like Don Armado (and in part by creating him) Shakespeare "draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." Thus the play seems almost an experiment in seeing how well language spun into intricate, ornate, but...