 | Francis Grose - England - 1811 - 332 pages
...blunders of the men of Gotham. Whence a man of Gotham is, in other words, a fool or simple fellow. The little smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can. Who this wonderful workman was, Ray says, is not known; and that he rather suspects no such person... | |
 | Francis Charles Laird - Nottinghamshire (England) - 1813 - 440 pages
...more clothes than those left by the worthy alderman, she must have been nearly as thinly clad as tome of our fashionable belles of the present day. In examining...is applied to such, who, being conceited of their •kill, pretend to the atchieving of impossibilities. But Oering is of opinion, that it arose merely... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 726 pages
...present day. In examining the various circumstances peculiar to this place, in ancient days, wi-fmd a proverb recorded by fuller : " The little, smith...doth the work that no man can." He thinks it means Kobndy, or a person who never » as ; and adds, that the proverb, by vray of sarcasm, is applied to... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 750 pages
...present day. In entraining the various circumstances peculiar to this place, in ancient days, we find * proverb recorded by Fuller : *' The little smith of...doth the work that no man can." He thinks it means Nobndy, or a person who never was; and odds, that the proverb, by way of sarcasm, is applied to such,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Books - 1827 - 548 pages
...and key, with a chain of ten links, which a flea could draw *, for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can." P. 39. With a passage in THE TALISMAN the reader may compare the following lines from Fletcher's tragedy... | |
 | 1827 - 550 pages
...and key, with a chain of ten links, which a flea could draw *, for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can." P. 39. With a passage in THE TALISMAN the reader may compare the following lines from Fletcher's tragedy... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1827 - 554 pages
...and key, with a chain of ten links, which a flea could draw *, for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can." P. 39. With a passage in THE TALISMAN the reader may compare the following lines from Fletcher's tragedy... | |
 | William White - 1832 - 714 pages
...famous for the production of the most curious articles in iron, and hence, he says, arose the following proverb, recorded by Fuller, — " The little smith...of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can." But we opine that the lines may rather be considered as ан enigma than a proverb; that the " little... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 604 pages
...name is extinct in, and lands divided betwixt female co-heirs, matched unto very worshipful persons. " The little smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can."*] England hath afforded many rare workmen in this kind ; whereof he may seem an apprentice to Vulcan,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 608 pages
...name is extinct in, and lands divided betwixt female co-heirs, matched unto very worshipful persons. " The little smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can."*] England hath afforded many rare workmen in this kind ; whereof he may seem an apprentice to Vulcan,... | |
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The little smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can. 
