...either lose all meaning, or, like equal antagonist forces, destroy one another. Thus, " they draw out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument. " They are precisely such as a good woman used, who having completed a task of spinning, for a part...

...-will be more successful ? But this comes of drawing our materials from the Germans, who are apt " to spin the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument." The second article, by HFC is "On the number of the Dramas ascribed to Sophocles." These, says the...

...exclude the light, Long passages which lead to nothing — " have been abolished by the legislature. ' To spin the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument, to make minute and fine distinctions, divisions and subdivisions, which smell more of the lamp than...

...exclude the light, Long passages which lead to nothing — " have been abolished by the legislature. 1 To spin the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument, to make minute and fine distinctions, divisions and subdivisions, which smell more of the lamp than...

...Hawaiians talk in meetings, or among themselves, like Armado in the play, they are apt to draw out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument. In words they are never wanting, and almost any Hawaiian can spin a yarn to any length, whether to...

...Hawaiians talk in meetings, or among themselves, like Armado in the play, they are apt to draw out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument. In words they are never wanting, and almost any Hawaiian can spin a yarn to any length, whether to...

...Hawaiians talk in meetings, or among themselves, like Armado in the play, they are apt to draw out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument. In words they are never wanting, and almost any Hawaiian can spin a yarn to any length, whether to...

...ordinary talk, ' by Latinated and inkhorn terms,' who, to use the language of Holofemes, 'drew out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument.' Sidney never lost sight of Continental matters. His friend Duplessis Mornay was in England for some...

...test of English criticism by translation. The influence of Alexander Pope on our versifiers of trie last century was not more prevalent, nor sustained...been willing to allow to Gongora the praise of wit, genius, and learning, and have spoken with unreserved admiration of those portions of his writings,...

...uncomfortable comforter, Eliphaz the Temanite, they "cannot withhold themselves from speaking." They "draw out the thread of their verbosity finer than the staple of their argument," and consume hours without number, and an infinity of words, to explain, expound, and illustrate their...