10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISPROUD»
Discover the use of
misproud in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
misproud and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of his ...
174; misprision *'misunderstanding': through enuy, or misprision, (1H4 1.3.26,
Northumberland); misprized †'mistaken': on a mispris'd mood, (MN 3.2.74,
Demetrius), OED Misprized ppl.a2.; misproud 'over-proud': strength'ning
misproud ...
2
A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare: with ...
6, near the beginning : I suspect a line is lost, — " And, now I fall, thy tough
commixtures melt ; And Impairing Henry strength'ning misproud York, The
common people swarm like summer flies ;" &C.22 I find since that in the
Contention the ...
William Sidney Walker, William Nanson Lettsom, 1860
3
A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare
Midsummer-Night's Dream, iii. 2. Misprision in the highest degree ! Twelfth-Night,
i. 5. Misproud. Overweening; arrogant. Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud
York, The common people swarm like summer flies. Henry 6, P. 3, ii. 6. Miss.
4
The household of sir Thos. More, libellus a M. More inceptus ...
... sayd woulde not have forsaken him, had he served Him as he served his
earthly Master. 'Twas a misproud Priest; and there's the Truth on't. And Father is
not misproud; and I don't believe we are — though proud of him we cannot fail to
be.
Anne Manning, Margaret More, 1860
5
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
'Twas a misproud priest ; and there's the truth on't. And father is not misproud ;
and I don't believe we are ; though proud of him we eannot fail to be. And I know
not why we may not be pleased with prosperitie, as well as patient under advers-
...
Twas a misproud priest ; and there's the truth on't. And father is not misproud ;
and I don't believe we are ; though proud of him we cannot fail to be. And I know
not why we may not bo pleased with prosperitie, as well as patient under advers-
...
Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, 1852
7
The Parterre of Poetry and Historical Romance: With Essays, ...
Still, — less than this none in the castle, who knew his fierce and misproud
temper, would have expected from Polydore. One and all regarded it merely as
the plunging and rearing of the colt who feels curb and lash for the first time. Ah !
could ...
8
The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.].
Still, — less than this none in the castle, who knew his fierce and misproud
temper, would have expected from Polydore. One and all regarded it merely as
the plunging and rearing of the colt who feels curb and lash for the first time. Ah !
could ...
9
Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English: containing ...
Bad expense, or employment. May reasonably be deemed nothing more than a
wilful mispense of our time, labour, and good humour. Barrow's Serms., xxix.
MispRoUD.orf;'- Unjustifiably proud. Impairing Henry, strength'ning misproud
York.
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The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV: By Thomas Heywood
40 30. misproud] arrogant. 37. Tom Twist] Clearly a quasi-proverbial inversion of '
Tom Telltroth', although to 'twist' in the sense of to distort meaning was not in use
for at least another century and I can find no comparable contemporary ...
Thomas Heywood, Richard Rowland, Richard Hugh Rowland, 2005
