Oration, Pedantic: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical; these summer flies— L. L v.2
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical; these summer flies— L. L v.2
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.