 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 : 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling...  The Literary Panorama - Page 4911809Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...bless the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth. ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS; A SATIRE. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. SlIAhSI'KAIM' Such shameless bards we have; and yet, 't is true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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 ; if I can cross him any way, : I had rather hear a brazen canslick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree : And that would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...ornament12; 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 : I had rather hear a brazen canstick 13 turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree; And that would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...ornament ; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot . Marry, and I'm glad of 't 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 canstick7 turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ; And that would... | |
 | Ant The - 1827 - 306 pages
...with fame, And to posterity consigns the glory of his name ! 1828. THITA. THE JOURNEYMAN RHYMER. " I'd rather be a kitten and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-makers : I'd rather hear a brazen candlestick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle tree,... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...Guardian, No. 117. RHYMERS. — FEELINGS THEY EXCITE. Marry, and I am glad of it with all my heart. I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of those same metre ballad mongers; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 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 of these same metre ballad-mongers: I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate oil an axle-tree ; And that would... | |
 | English drama - 1828 - 344 pages
...drinking, prick out my eyes with a balladma/cer's pert" — and again, in the first part of Henry IV.— " I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." Independent of the above, are many otlier sources from which this induction might have been borrowed.... | |
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