 Witts : when a young Scholar was recommended to him for a good Witt, Out upon him, I'le have nothing to doe with him ; give me the ploding student. If I would look for witts, I would goe to Newgate : there be the Witts...  Merton College - Seite 96von Bernard William Henderson - 1899 - 294 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Walker - 1813 - 1014 Seiten
...not abide witts : when a young scholar was recommended to him for a good witt, " Out upon " him, Lie have nothing to doe with him, give " me the plodding..."witts I -would goe to Newgate, there be the " witts;"* and John Earle (afterward Bp. of Sarum) was the only scholar that ever he tooke as recommended for... | |
 | John Walker - 1813 - 326 Seiten
...abide witts : when a young scholar was recommended to him for a good witt, ' ' Out upon " him, I'le have nothing to doe -with him, give " me the plodding,...look for " witts I -would goe to Newgate, there be tlie " witts;"* and John Earle (afterward Bp. of Sarum) was the only scholar that ever he tooke as... | |
 | 1822 - 474 Seiten
...young scholar was recommended to him as a wit, he would say, ' Out upon him ! I will have nothing to do with him. Give me the plodding student•: if I would look for wits, I would go to Newgate for them ; there be the wits.' " Sir Henry was much esteemed by Queen Elizabeth... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 Seiten
...young scholar was commended to him as a wit, he would say, ' Oat upon him ! I will have nothing to do with him! give me the plodding student If I would look for wits, I would go to Newgate for them ; there be the wits !' " Be it yours to aspire after solidity... | |
 | 1855 - 280 Seiten
...; when a young scholar was reeommended to him for a good wit, Out npon him, I'll have nothing to do with him ; give me the plodding student. If I would look for wits I would go to Newgate, there be tfie wits ; and John Earl (afterwards Bishop of Sarum and the... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1897 - 552 Seiten
...abide' witts.' ' When a young scholar was recommended to him for a good wit, he declared " Out upon him . . . give me the plodding student. If I would look for witts I would go to Newgate, there be the witts" ' (AtJBKKY, Li res of Eminent Men, n. ii.525). That Savilo approved... | |
 | John Buchan - 1898 - 272 Seiten
...abide " witts." When a young scholar was recommended to him for a good wit, he declared, " Out upon him, give me the plodding student. If I would look for ' witts ' I would go to Newgate, there be the ' witts \"" — an opinion which many provosts of Eton have held since... | |
 | 1904 - 548 Seiten
...young scholar was recommended to him for a good witt, Out upon him, says he, /'// have nothing to do with him ; give me the plodding student. If I would...look for witts I would goe to Newgate, there be the wilts' Again, he tells how Sir Walter Raleigh, dining with his graceless son at a nobleman's table,... | |
 | 1900 - 514 Seiten
...things. " Out upon him ! " he would say when a young scholar was recommended to him for a good wit, " give me the plodding student. If I would look for witts I would go to Newgate ; there be the witts." In accordance with these principles it is possible that Sir Henry... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 Seiten
...young scholar was recommended to him for a good witt, Out upon him, says he, /'// have nothing to do with him ; give me the plodding student. If I would...witts I would goe to Newgate, there be the witts.' Again, he tells how Sir Walter Raleigh, dining with his graceless son at a nobleman's table, when his... | |
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