"Bewray" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... triumphant in the meantime for this discovery, as if they had won a city, or conquered a province; as rich as if they had found a mine of gold ore. Quosvis auctores absurdis commentis suis percacant et stercorant, one saith, they bewray and daub a company of books and good authors, with their absurd comments, correctorum sterquilinia [734]Scaliger calls them, and show their wit in censuring others, a company of foolish note-makers, humble-bees, dors, or beetles, inter stercora ut plurimum versantur, they rake over all ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... master, I dare not,' answered the old woman, with utmost solemnity. 'And if I did, thy speech would presently bewray thee.' ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald
... Philomene again Can watch and sing when others sleep; And taketh pleasure in her pain, To wray the woe that makes her weep; So sing I now for to bewray The loathsome ...
— Tudor and Stuart Love Songs • Various
... Shakespeare puts them all down; aye, and Ben Jonson, too. O! that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow. He brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit." Burbage continues, "He is a shrewd fellow indeed." This has, of course, been taken to mean that Shakespeare was actively against Jonson in the Dramatists' and Actors' war. But as everything else points, as we have seen, to the contrary, ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... that you have said; For I perceive what sundry passions Strive in your breast, which oftentimes ere this Your countenance confused did bewray. The ground whereof since I perceive to grow On just respect of this your sole estate, And skilful care of fleeting youth's decay, Your wise foresight such sorrowing to eschew I much commend, and promise as I may To break this matter, and impart your mind Unto your father, and ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... the fair, With this sweet paragon might ill compare; And o'er her shoulders flow'd with graceful pride, Though for the heat some little cast aside, A crimson pall of Alexandria's dye, With snowy ermine lin'd, befitting royalty; Yet was her skin, where chance bewray'd the sight, Far purer than the snowy ermine's white. 'Lanval!' she cried, as in amazed mood, Of speech and motion void, the warrior stood, 'Lanval!' she cried, ''tis you I seek for here; Your worth has won me: knight, I love thee dear; And of my love such proof will soon impart, Shall ...
— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham
... blind man, we pray thee bewray, (and looke that the truth thou to us doe say) Thy birth and thy parentage, whatt itt may bee; For the love that ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols |
