 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...virtue that was never seen in you. i-»* — Hot. Marry, and I am glad of it with all my heart ;, I'd rather be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre-balladmongers ! I'd rather hear a brazen candlestick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...ornament ; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart ; I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers : * Part. f Corner. J Cutting. I had rather hear a brazen canstick* turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...ornament ; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart ; I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-monger« : had rather hear a brazen canst» k> lurn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...seen in you ! Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart. I had rather be a kitten, andcrymew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. I had rather hear a brazen canstick turu'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre-ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...MISERABLE RHYMERS. Marry, and I am glad of it with all my heart; I had rather be a kitten, and cry—mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers: I had rather hear a brazen canstick"f" turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge>... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...ornament; A virtue, that was never seen in you ! Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of thesesame metre ballad-mongers. I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 438 pages
...helpful ornament; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart; I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one...ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstick 2 turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...ornament ; A virtue, that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart ; : that young start-up ath all the glory of my overthrow...can cross him any way, I bless myself every way : Yo canslick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree : And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...first Satire,' under the title of ' English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,' with the following roottos : ' I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.' ' Such shameless bards we have ; and yet, 'tis true, There are as mad abandoned critics too.' POPS.... | |
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I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; —... 
