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" This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if... "
A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages - Page 25
1869 - 527 pages
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The British Essayists;: Mirror

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 338 pages
...Lear, sketches thtf character with his usual ability : This is some fellow Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature. He can't flatter; he, An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth, An' they will take it so ; if not,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 378 pages
...shoulder that I see Before me at this instant. Corn. This is some fellow, Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect ' A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb, Quite from his nature :9 He cannot flatter, he !— , An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth : An they will take...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 384 pages
...I see Before me at this instant. Corn. This is some fellow, Who, having been prais'd for blunmess, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb, Quite from his nature :a He cannot flatter, he I—- An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth : / An they will take...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 7

1810 - 500 pages
...blushes in the face of his hearer. Such a character is well described by Shak^peare, " A fellovr, that doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the...! An honest mind and plain — he must speak truth : And they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain." Such men, though they pay no regard to the feelings...
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 4

1811 - 530 pages
...Cornwall upon the bluntness of Kent's manners and language. This is some fellow Who, having been prab'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness; and...garb Quite from his nature. He cannot flatter, he! VOL. IV. P An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth: An' they will take it so; if not, he's...
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Life of Francis Beaumont. Life of John Fletcher. Prefaces. Commendatory ...

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...saucy roughness ; and constrains the g'trb, Quite from his nature. He can' t Jlatter, he! An lionest mind and plain, he must speak truth ; An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbour more craft, and more corritpter ends,...
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Cymbeline

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 424 pages
...Before me at this instant. Corn. This is some fellow, Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, cloth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb, Quite from his nature : He cannot flatter, lie ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth: An they will take it, so ; if not, he's...
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The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2

Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...bluntness, doth affect A saury roughness ; and cons/rains the girl, Quite from his nature. He can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth ; An they will f>ike it, so ; if not, he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbour more...
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The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2

Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 728 pages
...doth affect A saucy roughness; and constrains the girl-, Quite from /¡is nature. lie can'fjinttrr, he! An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth ; An they will fake it, so ; if not, he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harl'.our more...
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Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 498 pages
...say kirig 5 — likes me not.'} ie pleases me not. • • Who, having been prais'd for bluntncss, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb, Quite from his nature : 6 He cannot flatter, he !•— An honest mind and plain,—he must speak truth: An they will take...
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