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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... "
An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ... - Page 99
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The Lion [ed. by R. Carlile]., Volume 2

846 pages
...had but ihis fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver; (hero « on hi this monster make a man ; any strange beast there...to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to sec a dead Indian." — Shakspeare's Caliban. t One of the sublime occupations of this nondescript,...
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Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and Genius

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 534 pages
...Caliban, ' and had but this fish painted, not an holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. — When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' Such is the inexhaustible plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and Genius

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 522 pages
...' and had but this fish painted, not an holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver.—When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' Such is the inexhaustible plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by ...

Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...' and had but this fish painted, not an holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver.—When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.' Such is the inexhaustible plenty of our poet's invention, that he has exhibited another character in...
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The Tempest

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 410 pages
...added 'Bastards' after 'Indian'. At 'Indian' in was - and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man - and his fins like arms. Warm, o'my troth! I do now let 30 loose my opinion, hold...
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Bartholomew Fair

Ben Jonson - Drama - 2000 - 208 pages
...sausage. 11-12. the man . . . monsters] apparently a sight at the Fair. Cf. The Tempest, 2.2.28-31, 'Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...piece of silver. There would this monster make a man.' 13. seeing] looking (at displays). 96 quarrelled so early? Or that the ale o' the Fair would ha' 15...
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The Tempest

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 244 pages
...he smells like a fish. A very ancient and fish-like smell. A kind of, not of the newest Poor- John. A strange fish. Were I in England now, as once I was,...fool there but would give a piece of silver. There 30 would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit...
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Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon

John Thieme - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 210 pages
...reference to The Tempest in Water with Berries, when he has a character quote Trinculo's words on Caliban: 'Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (Water 159-60; Tempest II, ii, 27-32). The quotation is put in the mouth of a reporter who is trying...
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Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon

John Thieme - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 210 pages
...reference to The Tempest in Water with Berries, when he has a character quote Trinculo's words on Caliban: 'Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (Water 159-60; Tempest II, ii, 27-32). The quotation is put in the mouth of a reporter who is trying...
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Esthétiques de la nouveauté à la renaissance

François Laroque, Franck Lessay - Aesthetics, Modern - 2001 - 216 pages
.... . . A strange fish! Were I in England now. . . and had. . . this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would...a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian."1 Dans La Tempête, Trinculo essaie de se représenter la manière dont Caliban sera perçu...
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