 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 372 pages
...England now (as once I was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make...Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, 6' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer; this is no fish, but an islander, that... | |
 | 1817 - 552 pages
...— " were I in England now, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver; there would this monster make a...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." We shall just add, that a dollar was the price of admission to the sight, in this country. But what... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...England now (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make...Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my 3 Make mouths. * A black jack of leather, to hold beer. opinion, hold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...England now (as once I was), and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make...Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer ; this is no fish, but an islander, that... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807 - 552 pages
...England now (as once I was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. This speech happily ridicules the mania that appears to have always existed among our countrymen for... | |
 | 1807 - 788 pages
...no\v, as once I " was, and had but this fish painted, not a «• holiday fool there but would give a piece «• of silver : there would this monster...beggar, they will lay out " ten to see a dead Indian ! " § The perpetual mildness of the climate (the Bermudas) caused them to be called by «n apt alfusion... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807 - 560 pages
...England now (as once I was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. This speech happily ridicules the mania that appears to have always existed among our countrymen for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man ;9 any strange beast there makes a man : when they will...Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer ; this is no fish, but an islander, that... | |
 | 1817 - 526 pages
...England now, as once t was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." — Tempest, Art II. MR EDITOR, I SEND you two letters, which, though written in, and descriptive of,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 pages
...England now (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday -fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make...Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer ; this is no fish but an 9 Make mouths.... | |
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A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to... 
