...Twice-sod simplicity, bis cactus! O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! SIR NATHANIEL. dows be not unappeased, Nor we disturb'd with prodigies...him you, — the noblest that survives, The eldest replenish!; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts: And such barren plants are set...

...animals, and both concur in dismissing the wretched Dull as one unredeemed by literacy's Eucharist; he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in...intellect is not replenished, he is only an animal. (iv, ii, 23-5) Holofernes's contribution to the debate about orthography consists, predictably, of...

...Read something luminous at night. Edmund Wilson Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred of a book; he hath not eat paper as it were; he hath...only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. William Shakespeare LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST ITALO CALVINO If On a W1nter's Night a Traveler In the shop...

...Gelehrten entworfen wird: Hol. Twice-sod simplicity, bis coctus\ O! thou monster Ignorance, how deform'd dost thou look. Nath. Sir, he hath never fed of the...dainties that are bred in a book. He hath not eat paper, äs it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible...

...the illiterate Dull provokes from Shakespeare not satire nor even parody but a kind of gentle comedy: Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred...only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (4.2.21-24) By contrast, Nathaniel can praise the pedant Holofernes, whose hyperbole is quickly grounded,...

...one unredeemed by literacy's Euchatist: he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a hook. He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk...intellect is not replenished, he is only an animaL (4.2.25-5) Holofernes's conttibution to the debate about orthography consists, predicrably, of the...

...ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! NATHANIEL Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred 25 in a book. He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath...parts. And such barren plants are set before us that we 30 thankful should be — Which we rof taste and feeling are — for those parts that do fructify in...

...the few, but the great masses which make up the national life of the Republic. Chapter XV LITERATURE "He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in...replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in his duller parts." — SHAKESPEARE. T JLH .His was not written of the omnivorous American, for he has...

...Twice-sod simplicity, bis cactus! O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! SIR NATHANIEL. counter of my amorous tale: Then after replenish!; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts: And such barren plants are set...