 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 sider
...humility. And, for his part, he thought he should be blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud...would not wag, nor scarce Lie still, without a fee : when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a chequin ! [Knoeking without. Who's that ? one knocks... | |
 | Junius - 1850 - 504 sider
...in the following lines : — " Gives forked counsel ; takes provoking gold, On either hand, and puts it up. So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Li* still without a fee." — JUNIUS. stitutional check and reciprocal control of one branch of the... | |
 | Junius - 1850 - 578 sider
...counsel ; takes provoking gold, On either Land, and puts it up. So wise, so grave, of so perpiex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee."— Jcsics. stitutional check and reciprocal control of one branch of tho legislature over the other, which... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1851 - 570 sider
...the proud banner of Egmont floated in the wind. THE TABLES TURNED. BY MRS. EDWARD THOMAS. CHAPTER I. So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue. And loud withal, that could not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee. — BEX JONSOI>'S Volpane. " I REALLY begin to entertain... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 sider
...humility. And, for his part, he thought he should be blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue. And loud withal, that would not wag, nor acaree Lie still, without a fee; when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a chequin ! — [Knocking... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 sider
...humility. And, for his part, he thought he should be blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie ttill, without a fee : when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a eheqtiin ! [Knocking without.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sider
...subject. Marslun, Faun. The lawyer Gives forked council ; takes provoking gold On either hand, and puts it up So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue,...would not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee. Ben Jonson (see Juniiu' Letter), 39. I oft have heard him say how he admir'd Men of your large profession,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sider
...humility, And (for his part) he thought he should be blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit ; So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that could not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee. BEN JONSON. Volpoiu. OTHEES believe no voice t'... | |
 | L. J. Bigelow - 1871 - 550 sider
...wit, and perhaps not less truth, speaks of a lawyer as one with " So wise, so grave, of so perplexed a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee." . Another poet, turning his attention to the law itself, has defined it as follows: * "Law is like... | |
 | 1874 - 752 sider
...honesiy." Ben Jonson in his Volpone or the Fox, speaks of a lawyer as one with " — So perplexed a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee." Beaumont and Fletcher give us a vivid idea of the litigious warrior in the little French lawyer, La... | |
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And re-turn; make knots, and undo them; Give forked counsel; take provoking gold On either hand, and put it up; these men, He knew, would thrive with their humility. 
