 | John Marston - English drama - 1856 - 364 pages
...conceive then dare to prescribe; yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow. I cannot, nay, I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainenesse against the verjuice-face of the crabbedst Satyrist that ever stuttered. He that thinks... | |
 | John Marston - English drama - 1856 - 410 pages
...conceive then dare to prescribe; yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow. I cannot, nay, I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainenesse against the verjuice-face of the crabbedst Satyrist that ever stuttered. He that thinks... | |
 | John Marston - English drama - 1856 - 348 pages
...conceive then dare to prescribe; yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow. I cannot, nay, I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainenesse against the verjuice-face of the crabbedst Satyrist that ever stuttered. He that thinks... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 570 pages
...conceive than dare to prescribe; yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow. I cannot, nay, I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainness against the verjuiceface of the crabbed'st satirist that ever stuttered. "—Preface. (183)... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - Criticism - 1914 - 230 pages
...complaining of those who term "all satires bastard which are not palpably dark," he declares: "I cannot, nay, I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainness against the verjuiceface of the crabbed'st satirist that ever stuttered" (Pref. Scourge of... | |
 | Morse Shepard Allen - 1920 - 204 pages
...explain. He would, I however, have the subject-matter rough, rather than the style. '' "I cannot, nay. I will not, delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainness against the verjuice-face of the s crabb'st satirist that ever stuttered." To satirize vkes... | |
 | John Marston - Crime - 1925 - 152 pages
...conceaue, then/ / dare to prescribe; yet let me haue the substance rough, not the shadow. I cannot, nay I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainnes gainst the veriuyce face, of the crabbed'st Satyrist that euer stuttered. Hee that thinks... | |
 | Kenneth John Emerson Graham - History - 1994 - 260 pages
...of the letter he mentions plainness in the same context of obscurity and harshness: "I cannot, nay I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainnes gainst the verivyce face, of the crabbed'st Satyrist that ever stuttered."31 In this context,... | |
 | Charles R. Bambach - History - 1995 - 316 pages
...of the letter he mentions plainness in the same context of obscurity and harshness: "I cannot, nay I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainnes gainst the verivyce face, of the crabbed'st Satyrist that ever stuttered."31 In this context,... | |
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I can willinglyer conceive then dare to prescribe; yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow. I cannot, nay, I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainenesse against the verjuice-face of the crabbedst Satyrist that ever... 