10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLODPATE»
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clodpate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Tricksters & Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy
They then turn their threats to Clodpate: Cuff: Mr. Justice, you are a Coxcomb;
and I shall find a time to cut your Nose. Kick: And I will make bold to piss upon
your Worship. However comic Kick's threat (a late twentieth-century critic cannot
read ...
J. Douglas Canfield, 1997
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Epsom-Wells. A Comedy, Acted at the Duke's Theatre: Written ...
How luckily was I reliev'd ? I had been sure for one night, if an honest fellow had
not come by, by Miracle ; but he told me a dreadfuf story of a Spirit walking to
night. - '< Enter Clodpate.- Clodp. Who's this ? my man Toby Toby. Oh the Devil,
the ...
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29 clodpate /(klod pāt)/ noun • A stupid fellow; a dolt; a numskull. Examples: Look
at Arria worshipping the drunken clodpate of a husband who beats her; look at
Cornelia treasuring as a jewel in her maternal heart the oaf her son; I have
known ...
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Epsom-Wells, a Comedy. Acted at the Duke's Theatre
Jilt. Prithee keep it secret still, that I may be taken for a greater personthan l arnz it
will further my designs. . Peg. But'Iwonder you will not bend all your designs upon
Mr. clodpate. ' . jilt. I have baits ready sor him,l cap humour him toa hairz but ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London
Shadwell's Clodpate also ends up married to a woman beneath him in status
who wins him over by pretending to share his hatred of London. these men turn
their backs on unsophisticated beauties and ruin their estates in the process.
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Worshipton in the mean time, under the mistaken belief that the accomplished
miss Clodpate is an heiress, persuades her to run off with him, and marry him
privately : and after the ceremony is performed, finds, to his unspeakable
discomfiture, ...
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The Cambridge tart: epigrammatic and satiric-poetical ...
ret, and there observed the countryman's motions: Clodpate, in the interim,
entered the chamber, but there found only the chum, at his books. ' Where,' says
he, ' is the other young man with my pig ?' ' What pig ?' says the student; * there is
no ...
Cambridge tart, Richard Gooch, 1823
8
The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Restoration Drama
Into this confusion comes Clodpate, a "humors" character, who hates London, Jilt,
a ladies' maid who endeavors to capture Clodpate in a matrimonial net, two
scoundrels, Kick and Cuff, and the cuckolded citizens, Bisket and Fribble. The
plot ...
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Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, ...
In discussing their previous night's drinking with Bevil and Raines, Mr. Woodley
reveals that he was “in company” with yet another incongruous companion, “that
Publick spirited Fool and Country Justice, Mr. Clodpate, and one or two as bad.
Professor Evan Gottlieb, Professor Juliet Shields, 2013
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Worshipton in the mean time, under the mistaken belief that the accomplished
miss Clodpate is an heiress, persuades her to run off with him, and marry him
privately : and after the ceremony is performed, finds, to his unspeakable
discomfiture, ...
Tobias George Smollett, 1805
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLODPATE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
clodpate is used in the context of the following news items.
The Dulpickles and Nigmenogs of 1699
... 1699: addle-pate, booberkin, burly-sop, clodpate, clunch, cock-robbin, cod's-head, country-put, dulpickle, jack-adams, jobbernoll, nick-ninny, ... «New York Times, Apr 11»
Kobe Bryant and LeBron James: Why People Love One and Hate …
Kobe can also play the role of Joker for simply being the clodpate, arrogant being that he has been in the past and, to some, still is. LeBron is ... «Bleacher Report, Nov 10»
