 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 relieve a lame...  The planter: or, Thirteen years in the South - Page 169by David Brown - 1853 - 275 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829
...painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a mam any strange beast there makes a man : when they will...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian — Tempest — Shakspean. MCCLXXXIV. A mind too vigorous and active serves only to consume the body... | |
![Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed](http://bks8.books.google.com.au/books?id=8MoDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed") | Laconics - 1829
...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...to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to sec a dead Indian.—Tempest—Uhalttpeare. MCCLXXXIV. A mind too vigorous and active serves only to... | |
 | Charles Olson, Frances Boldereff, Ralph Maud, Sharon Thesen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 552 pages
...step off from man, from his vulgarities, and his obscenities. The play is loaded with deprecations of man: When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame...beggar They will lay out ten to see a dead Indian or Antonio's All idle — whores and knaves against which Prospero, Gonzalo and Ariel raise up not... | |
 | Anne McGillivray, Brenda Comaskey - Social Science - 1999 - 200 pages
...contemporary depictions of enslaved Carib Indians and the response of Londoners to the Frobisher exhibitions - 'when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2). The Jesuit Lafitau, missionary to the Iroquois in New France from 1712... | |
 | Luis Armando Carello - Constitutional law - 1999 - 825 pages
...preciosa que toda su tribu»). Otra sugiere una condición subhumana: «... when they will not dive a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man, and his fins like arms!» (The Tempest, II, 2). (Según la traducción de Astrana... | |
 | Thomas S. Popkewitz, Lynn Fendler - Education - 1999 - 254 pages
...("Legged like a man! and his fins like arms!") that in England people pay to see this monster-like man, "when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar" (II, ii, 25-33). Tnus, Caliban is seen as part of the natural world. At the beginning of the play,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 84 pages
A storm strikes a ship carrying Alonso, Ferdinand, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Stephano, and Trinculo, who are on their way to Italy after coming from the wedding of Alonso's ... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 366 pages
...had but this fish painted', Trinculo surmises, he could earn a small fortune, for while its people 'will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (2.2.24-33) - a comment on tightfisted English folk and their attraction to exotic exhibits rather... | |
 | Karen Ordahl Kupperman - History - 2000 - 297 pages
...matches the more famous sentiment voiced by Trinculo in The Tempest: "when they will not give a doit to a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian."18 Henry Farley ironically drew the lesson that others would draw more thoughtfully, when he... | |
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