"The son of a maltjobber and moneylender he was himself a cornjobber and moneylender, with ten tods of corn hoarded in the famine riots." (U9.742)
"His borrowers are no doubt those divers of worship mentioned by Chettle Falstaff who reported his uprightness of dealing. He sued a fellowplayer for the price of a few bags of malt" (U9.744)
"and exacted his pound of flesh in interest for every money lent. How else could Aubrey's ostler and callboy get rich quick? All events brought grist to his mill." (U9.746)
"Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive:" ([U9.748])
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"Hamlet and Macbeth with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting." (U9.751)
"The lost armada is his jeer in Love's Labour Lost. His pageants, the histories, sail fullbellied on a tide of Mafeking enthusiasm. Warwickshire jesuits are tried and we have a porter's theory of equivocation. The Sea Venture comes home from Bermudas and the play Renan admired is written with Patsy Caliban, our American cousin. The sugared sonnets follow Sidney's." (U9.752)
"the gross virgin who inspired The Merry Wives of Windsor, let some meinherr from Almany grope his life long for deephid meanings in the depths of the buckbasket.
I think you're getting on very nicely. Just mix up a mixture of theolologicophilolological. Mingo, minxi, mictum, mingere." (U9.758)
I think you're getting on very nicely. Just mix up a mixture of theolologicophilolological. Mingo, minxi, mictum, mingere." (U9.758)
"— Prove that he was a jew, John Eglinton dared,'expectantly. Your dean of studies holds he was a holy Roman.
Sufflaminandus sum." (U9.763)
Sufflaminandus sum." (U9.763)
"— He was made in Germany,, Stephen replied, as the champion French polisher of Italian scandals." (U9.766)
"Amplius. In societate humana hoe est maxime necessarium ut sit amicitia inter multos.
— Saint Thomas, Stephen began ..." (U9.770)
— Saint Thomas, Stephen began ..." (U9.770)
"- Ora pro nobis, Monk Mulligan groaned, sinking to a chair." (U9.773)
Ora Pro Nobis in Latin = Pray for us.
Ora Pro Nobis in Latin = Pray for us.
"There he keened a wailing rune.
- Pogue mahone! Acushla machree! It's destroyed we are from this day! It's destroyed we are surely!" (U9.774)
- Pogue mahone! Acushla machree! It's destroyed we are from this day! It's destroyed we are surely!" (U9.774)