10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPOSTOROUS»
Discover the use of
impostorous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
impostorous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
65 I have cast off that cruelty of frenzy Which once appeared impostorous, and
then juggled To cheat my sleeps of rest. Orgilus. Was I in earnest? Penthea. Sure
, if we were all sirens, we should sing pitifully. 64. outrage.] Weber subst.; out-
rage ...
John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer,
1980
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The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck: A Strange Truth
... or any that live in them, What folly, nay, what madness 'twere to lift A ringer up
in all defence but yours, Which can be but impostorous in a tide. 100 Hen.
Stanley, we know thou lovest us, and thy heart 88. passed] undergone (O.E.D., v.,
32).
John Ford, Peter Ure,
1968
3
John Ford's Dramatic Works
Thou art in thy religion an atheist, in thy condition acur, in thy diet an epicure, in
thy lust a goat, in thy sleep a hog ;_thou tak'st upon thee the habit of a grave
physician, but art' indeed an impostorous empiric. Physicians are the body's ...
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The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck. A Tragedy [in Five ...
... a The present times, ** or ahyss'th t'lquZPnlthhZQ' ",'*'ct'*'; " What azure, nay',
what madn ssedfflereltd'flifiYZ'; '.'* . A finger vp in all defence *but*yours,*'f_ * lyffl-
si 1 12- __ Which can be but impostorous 'in wine; , K. sran'h'e, wce know ...
Perkin WARBECK (calling himself Richard the Fourth, King of England.),
1714
5
Literary Criticism of 17th Century England
... and a meere madnesse, by which the infected is thrust beneath all the degrees
of humanitie: 6} ex homine, Brutum quodammodo redditur:4 (for which, poore
Poesie, in this diseasd and impostorous age, is so barbarously vilified) the other
is, ...
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Old Plays: Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection. ...
... observe it, I beseech you, And note the trick of a deceitful woman: She in the
meantime feigns the passions Ofa great-bellied Woman; counterfeits Their
passions and their qualms; and verily All Rome held this for no impostorous stuff:
What's ...
Charles Wentworth Dilke,
1816
... of a deceitful woman: She in the meantime feigns the passions Of a great-
bellied woman; counterfeits Their passions and their qualms; and verily ' All
Rome held this for no impostorous stuff: What's to be done now? Here's a rumour
spread .
Charles Wentworth Dilke, Robert Dodsley,
1816
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Popery Stripped of Its Garb: Or the Work of Iniquity Checked ...
He said : " The clause referred to, will do Mr. H. no harm." What ! can the
Association insinuate that Mr. H. is an " impostorous" villain, and yet do him no
harm ? What ! can it be possible that Mr. H. can be represented all over the
United States, ...
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The Dramatic Works of John Ford:: With an Introduction, and ...
... (Most spectacles of ruin, some of mercy) Are precedents sufficient to forewarn
The present times, or any that live in them, What folly, nay, what madness 'twere
to lift A finger up in all defence but your's, Which can be but impostorous in a title.
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The Selected Plays of John Ford: The Broken Heart, 'Tis Pity ...
IV.ii.35 deities: Gifford; deities: IV.ii.44 madness: conj. Maxwell; words IV.ii.54
dearth: this edition; death IV.ii.57 been: Weber; bee IV.ii.65 roof: Weber; root IV.ii.
67 impost'rous: Spencer (impostorous); Impostors IV.ii.81 sun: Weber; Swan IV. ii.
John Ford, Colin Gibson,
1986