 | European revolution, Superior Spirit - 1848 - 204 էջ
...practical man is to be trusted. And what was he ? — Forsooth, " One Michael Cassio — an arithmetician That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster." Some youth, who, by the favour of birth or rank, fresh from a pretended course of mathematics or classics... | |
 | 1863 - 804 էջ
...show, that it was Äot owing to rny familiarity with the pages of Scott, Gilham, or Hardee, for I " had never set a squadron in the field» Nor the division of a battle knew, More than a spinster!" In the latter part of the month, the company, glorying in the euphonious... | |
 | 1848 - 622 էջ
...higher than he did Michael Cassio, ' the Arithmetician,' because He had never set a squadron in tlie field Nor the division of a battle knows More than a Spinster . This is quite the guard-room tone — the mess-room cant of disparagement, of one who has been superseded,... | |
 | 1898 - 664 էջ
...Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow all must damn in affaire wise ; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...battle knows More than a spinster ; unless the bookish théorie, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he : mere prattle without practice Is... | |
 | 1892 - 678 էջ
...suggest that this is not the sense in which the word is used in ' Othello,' I. L:— One Michael Cassio That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster. " So on the Tomb " (marginal note in Newton), Here, it appears to me, " spinster '' means no more than... | |
 | Edmund Phipps - 1850 - 550 էջ
...experience ; and to oppose to them raw disjointed corps, led by zealous and brave country gentlemen, ' who never set a squadron in the field, nor the division of a battle know more than a spinster,' is to court confusion, and to ensure fruitless massacre and dear-bought... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 էջ
...Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damned in a fair wife ; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he. Mere prattle, without practice, Is all his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 էջ
...Cassio, a Florentine, - Saluted. VOL. IV. 2 I t Circumlocution. J A fellow almost damn'd in a fair life ; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...knows More- than a spinster ; unless* the bookish theoric,t Whorrin the togaed consuls can propose As masterly ns lie : mere prattle, without practice,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 էջ
...a great arithmetician,1 One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damned in a fair wife ;s That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...battle knows More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric,3 Wherein the toged consuls 4 can propose As masterly as he. Mere prattle, without practice,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 էջ
...a great arithmetician,i One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A follow almost damned in a fair wife ;s That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...battle knows More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric,3 Wherein the toged consuls 4 can propose As masterly as he. Mere prattle, without practice,... | |
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That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster... 
