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" Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other... "
The plays and poems of Shakspeare [according to the text of E. Malone] with ... - Page 132
by William Shakespeare - 1833
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 580 pages
...owed3 it, he might have more diseases than he knew for. Fal. Men of all sorts take a pride to gird 4 at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay,...than I invent, or is invented on me. I am not only 1 ie great and small, all ranks. 2 This quackery was once so much in fashion that Linacrc, the founder...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Illustrated ; Embracing ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 554 pages
...owed 3 it, he might have more diseases than he knew for. Fal. Men of all sorts take a pride to gird 4 at me. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay,...than I invent, or is invented on me. I am not only 2 This quackery was once so much in fashion that Linacre, the founder of the College of Physicians,...
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The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk

Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...sorts," says that merry knight, "take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than I invent,...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." — >Steele. SOURCE OF CONCEIT. All affectation and display proceed from the supposition of possessing...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 548 pages
...pride to gird1 at me. The brain of this foolishcompounded clay, man, is not able to invent b anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is...men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow that hath o'erwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince put thee into my service for any other reason than...
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Falstaff. Crabbe. Moral philosophy of Byron's life. Moral spirit of Byron's ...

Henry Giles - 1851 - 306 pages
...self-elation. " Men of all sorts," he says, " take a pride to gird at me ; the brain of this foolish compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends...me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause of wit in other men." It is plain, too, that he did not esteem himself meanly beside the proudest titles....
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The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 546 pages
...pride to gird" at me. The brain of this foolishcompounded clay, man, is not able to invent b anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is...not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is iu other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow that hath o'erwhelmed all her litter but one....
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William Shakspeare's Complete Works, Dramatic and Poetic, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 512 pages
...owed' it, he цЫ have more diseases than be knew for. FaL Men of all sorts take a pride to gird1* at me ; The brain of this foolish-compounded clay,...cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before шее, like a sow, that hath o'erwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince put thee into my service...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 508 pages
...al. Men of all sorts take a pride to gird* at me ; The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, it not able to vent any thing that tends to 'laughter,...I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath o'erwhclmed all her litter but one. If the prince put thce into my service for any other reason than...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...passado ! the punto reverse ! the hay " ! 35 — ii. 4. 242. Men of all sorts take a pride to gird* at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay,...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. 19— i. 2. 243. He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under presentation of that, he shoots...
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 167, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, hut tes, but lanceth not the sore. Gaunt. Come, come,...and cause, I would not stay. Baling. Then, Englan ierrice for any other reason than to set me off, «hy then I have no judgment. Thou whoreson mandrake,...
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