| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1773 - 506 pages
...Gray. « Dr. Gray:« afôrtion may be fupported by the following paíáf e in an old comeily, сч!Ы 'The Family of Love, 1608 : " Can you think I get my living by a bell and a clack diß ?" " Bv a bell aiu! a daek -¿ißt ? how's that ?" " Why, by begging, fir, &-•" Again,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 384 pages
...4to. " all Rome, detefled of inconstancie." HENDERSON. 423. —clack~dish ;] The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by a wooden...dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked to shew that their vessel was empty. This appears appears from a passage guoted on another occasion by... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...unpeople the province with continency. THEOBALD. Line 437. ——clack-dish.] The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by a wooden...dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked to shew that their vessel was empty. This appears in a passage quoted on another occasion by Dr. Grey.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...return, (as our prayers are he may,) let me desire you to 1 clack-dish:] The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by a wooden...they clacked, to show that their vessel was empty. 5 tin inward iif Ais:"] Inward is intimate. 3 The greater file —] The greater number. 4 the business... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...return, (as our prayers are he may,) let me desire you to 1 clack-dish:} The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by a wooden...they clacked, to show that their vessel was empty. 2 an inward of his:] Inward is intimate. 3 The greater file — ] The greater number. 4 the business... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 522 pages
...The heggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want hi a wooden-dish with a moveahle cover, which they clacked, to show that their vessel was empty. This appears from a pussage quoted on another occasion hy Dr. Grey. Dr. Grey's assertion may he supported hy the following... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pages
...complaints is grossly called the poiedering-tub. JOHNSON. 45 — clack-dish:} The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by a wooden...dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked to shew that their vessel was empty. This appears in a passage quoted on another occasion by Dr. Gray.... | |
| Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 618 pages
...Henry 1Г. A- *• S. 4. " Clapdish.—" The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaiua their want by a wooden dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked to show that the vessel was empty." See Mr Stcevcns'* Jiote on Мсазнге for Measure, A. 3. S. 8. Again, in... | |
| Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 618 pages
...Henro IV. A- 8- S. 4. 3* Clapdiih.—" The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim (heir want by a wooden dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked to show that the vessel was empty." See Mr Stcevens's Nui'- on Measure for Measure, A. 'JS t. Again, in Churchyard's... | |
| Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 620 pages
...S. 4. 31 ClapAis/i. — " The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by n wooden dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked to show that the vessel was empty." See Mr Steeveni'a Note on Measure for pleasure, Л. У. S. Ï. Again, in Churchyard's... | |
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