| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 σελίδες
...fell attorney prowls for prey. DR. S. JOHNSON: London, Men of your large profession that could speak To every cause, and things mere contraries, Till they were hoarse again, yet all be law. BEN JONSON. Property, you see it alter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share, Or, in a jointure,... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 614 σελίδες
...Hush things he mitigates, and pride subdues. BOOK III. CHAPTER I. Ton still are what you were, sir ! With most quick agility could turn And return : make knots and undo them — Give forked counsel. Votponc, or the Fox. BEFORE a large table covered with parliamentary papers, eat Lumley, Lord Vargrave.... | |
| PROFESSOR DANIEL LYONS - 1899 - 552 σελίδες
...meanings ; pointing more than one way ; ambiguous ; equivocal ; Men of your lajf,-e profession, . . . That with most quick agility, could turn. And re-turn ; make knots and undo them ; Give forkfd counsel. — B. Jonson. FORLORN, for-lorn', adj. quite lost : forsaken : wretched. [AS f orlaren,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1904 - 158 σελίδες
...Till they are hoarse again, yet all be law I That with most quick agility can turn And re-turn ; can make knots and undo them, Give forked counsel, take...hand, and put it up. These men He knew would thrive ;— t but far was he from wishing that a son of his should thrive by such a perversion of his intellectual... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1905 - 666 σελίδες
...Skakespeare : " ' I oft have heard him say how he admired Men of your large profession, that could speak To every cause, and things mere contraries, Till they...quick agility, could turn And return ; make knots and undoe them , Give forked counsel ; take provoking gold On either hand, and put it up ; these men He... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 σελίδες
...first took him. I oft have heard him say how he admired Men of your large profession, that could speak t their own: 390 1 1 Here Goldsmith's Imagination...may stand for panthers. At every draught more lar 210 Ami return; make knots, and undo them; Give forked counsel; take provoking11 gold On either hand,... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 900 σελίδες
...have heard him say how he admir'd Men of your large profession, that could speak To every cause, und things mere contraries, Till they were hoarse again,...That, with most quick agility, could turn, And return ; 1 make knots, and undo them; Give forked counsel ; take provoking gold On either hand, and put it... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 924 σελίδες
...first took him. I oft have heard him say how he admir'd Men of your large profession, that could speak To every cause, and things mere contraries. Till they were hoarse again, yet all be law ; BS That, with most quick agility, could turn, And return ; ' make knots, and undo them ; Give forked... | |
| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 σελίδες
...Act i. Sc. 1. I oft have heard him say how he admir'd Men of your large profession, that could speak To every cause, and things mere contraries, Till they were hoarse again, yet all be law. 2618 BenJonson: Volpnne. Act i. Sc. 1 While lawyers have more sober sense, Than t' argue at their own... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 936 σελίδες
...profession, that could speak To every cause, and things mere contraries. Till thbj were hoarse a^ain, yet all be law ; • That, with most quick agility, could turn, And return ; ' make Knuts, and undo them ; Give forked counsel ; take provoking gold On either hand, and put it up : these... | |
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