...that speaks; — There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And t J ope my lipt, let no dog bark! O, my Antonio, I do know of these, That therefore only are reputed...

...others, except it be by the absurdity and disgust of their example. He who says by implication, 'I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark,' can only meet with the sarcasm, suppressed by the civil and the servile, uttered by the proud or the...

...others, except it be by the absurdity and disgust of their example. He who says by implication, 'I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark,' can only meet with the sarcasm, suppressed by the civil and the servile, uttered by the proud or the...

...fame. — POPE. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool, And do a wilful stillness entertain : With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion, As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, " And when I ope my lips let no dog bark." Merchant of Venice....

...pool, And do a wilful stillness entertain Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark.'" MERCHANT OF VENICE. " Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer,...

...MUST be permitted to remark," observed the Countess of Blacksley, in that tone " As who shall say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark' " — " I must be permitted to remark that the sacrifices which my niece Lady Clara Nichols has made...

...honoured, talk freely, and of assuring himself that this great man did not, as was sometimes said of him, " A wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom ;" but that his taciturnity was the result of profound thought, anxiously employed on the most serious...

...— There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in...opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who would say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!" O my Antonio, I do know of these...

...that speaks — There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be...wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, "1 am Sir Oracle, And when l ope my lips, let no dog bark!" O my Antonio, 1 do know of those That therefore...

...good advice which proved his appreciation of the quotation preceding his name on the toast list, "I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips let no dog bark." His response in full follows. Brother Wallace Radcliffe was the next speaker and delivered a most beautiful...