 Oh, it's your only fine humour, sir; your true melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, divers times, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and paper, presently, and overflow you half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a...  Headlong Hall: And, Nightmare Abbey - Side 90af Thomas Love Peacock - 1845 - 172 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Johannes Paul Ludwig Püschel - 1907 - 114 sider
...Mat: Oh, it's your only fine humour, sir; your true melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit, sir.1) I am melancholy myself, divers times, sir, and then...half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting. $atte man e§ gelernt, biefem SRobeunfug ju b,ulbigen, bann gait e§ a\§ jroeite Sebingung, bie gejierte,... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1909 - 268 sider
...in his Humour. I will transcribe it, as I do not think you have these plays at Marlow. ' MATTHEW. O, it's your only fine humour, sir. Your true melancholy...you half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting. 'Eo. KNOWELL. Sure, he utters them by the gross. ' STEPHEN. Truly, sir; and I love such things out... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1909 - 262 sider
...Humour. I will transcribe it, as I do not think you have these plays at Marlow. ' MATTHEW. O, it 's your only fine humour, sir. Your true melancholy breeds...you half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting. ' ED. KNOWELL. Sure, he utters them by the gross. ' STEPHEN. Truly, sir ; and I love such things out... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 632 sider
...these plays at Marlow. " MATTHEW. 0, it's only your fine humour, sir. Your true melancholy breeds your fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself divers times,...you half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting. " ED. KNOWELL. Sure, he utters them by the gross. " STEPHEN. Truly, sir ; and I love such things out... | |
 | Charles Shirley Potts - 1910 - 644 sider
...Mathew, the son of a fishmonger, says, "I am melancholy myself divers times, sir, and then do I . . . overflow you half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting" (III, 1). Satire on the shallow vein, the plagiarism, and the mawkish sentimentality of the gallanf... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 898 sider
...humour, sir: your true melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, diver times, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and...half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting. E. Know. (Aside.) Sure he otters them then by the gross. i» Step. Truly, sir, and I love such things... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 916 sider
...fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, diver time*, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and [ioa paper presently, and overflow you half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting. A.'. Know. (Aside.) Sure he utters them then by the gross. "• Step. Truly, sir, and I love such things... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 900 sider
...fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, diver time«, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and [IM 2 ߇ 2 肀 ހ 0 ҁ 肀 - ata sitting. E. Know. (Aside.) Sure he utters them then by the gross. "• Step. Truly, sir, and I... | |
 | 1912 - 740 sider
...p. 63: 'Step. Ay, truly, sir, I am mightily given to melancholy. Mat. Oh, it's your only fine humor, sir; your true melancholy breeds your perfect fine...half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.' Other dramatists ridicule this practice; cf. King John 4. 1. 13-6: Arth. Methinks no body should be... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1912 - 360 sider
...p. 63: 'Step. Ay, truly, sir, I am mightily given to melancholy. Mat. Oh, it's your only fine humor, sir; your true melancholy breeds your perfect fine...half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.' Other dramatists ridicule this practice; cf. King John 4. 1. 13—6: Arth. Methinks no body should... | |
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