 | 1808 - 556 pagini
...ingenuity. For ex.implc, in the Duke of Milan. « To fee thofe chuffs, that every day may fpend A foldier's entertainment for. a year, Yet make a third meal of a bunch of raifins. " « So all the old copies, and fo indeed Coxeter's ; but Mr Ma for., whofe fagacity nothing... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 588 pagini
...like a cloud. It is on the following passage in the Duke of Milan: To see those chuffs that every day may spend A soldier's entertainment for a year, Yet make a third meal of a bunch of raisins. Mason, impressed with the natural idea that the word third could only apply to two previous meals,... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 542 pagini
...our shrunk-up veins, and pour into them New blood and fervour To see these chuffs,7 that every day may spend A soldier's entertainment for a year, Yet...sponges, that suck up a kingdom's fat, Battening like scarabs9 in the dung of peace, To be squeezed out by the rough hand of war ; And all that their whole... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 pagini
...though not devoid of ingenuity. For example, in the Duke of Milan, " To see those chuffs, that every day may spend, A soldier's entertainment for a year, Yet make a third meal of a bunch of raisins." So all the copies — but M. Mason, whose sagacity nothing escapes, detected the blunder, and, for... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 406 pagini
...pour into them New blood and fervour Med. I long to be at it ; To see these chuffs1, that every day may spend A soldier's entertainment for a year, Yet make a third meal of a bunch of raisins8 : These sponges, that suck up a kingdom's fat, Battening like scarabs3 in the dung of peace,... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 396 pagini
...them New blood and fervour t Med. I long to be at it; VOL. II. E To see these chuffs ', that every day may spend A soldier's entertainment for a year, Yet make a third meal of a bunch of raisins2: These sponges, that suck up a kingdom's fat. Battening like scarabs3 in the dung of peace,... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 562 pagini
...them New blood and fervour Med. I long to be at it; VOL. II. B To see these chuffs1, that every day may spend A soldier's entertainment for a year, Yet make a third meal of a(bunch of raisins8: These sponges, that suck up a kingdom's fat, Battening like scarabs3 in the dung... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1840 - 590 pagini
...our sbrunk-up veins, and pour into them New blood and fervour To lee these chaffs*, that every day may spend A soldier's entertainment for a year, Yet make a third meal of a bunch of raising* : Med. I long to be at it; •/..,. .'.•,-„ , :,.,ti,.; So II stood In every edition before... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 602 pagini
...guzzling, or with ill tempers." Thus in Massinger's Duke of Milan : " To see these chuffs, who every day may spend a soldier's entertainment for a year, yet make a third meal of a bunch of raisins." — The following passage from Sir Thomas More will show the meaning of gorbellied: " As a great gorbflyed... | |
 | Philip Massinger, John Ford - 1869 - 746 pagini
...pour into them New blood and fervour Afed. I long to be at it ; To see these chuffs, that every day may spend A soldier's entertainment for a year, Yet...together, By cozenage, perjury, or sordid thrift, With one grip« to be ravish'd. Hern. I would be tousing Their fair madonas, that in little dogs, Monkeys, and... | |
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But when We enter towns by force, and carve ourselves Pleasure with pillage, and the richest wines Open our shrunk-up veins, and pour into them New blood and fervour Med. 
