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He is contrasted to a boorish Launce, who in Dogberry-like fashion murders a Queen's good English by silly malapropisms.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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He is contrasted to a boorish Launce, who in Dogberry-like fashion murders a Queen's good English by silly malapropisms.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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The Dogberry is the fruit either of the Cornus sanguinea or of the
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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One cannot help recalling Dogberry's saying that "good looks come by Fortune and learning by Nature" when contemplating the universal belief that Chatterton wrote the poems of Rowley.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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A blundering official may be called a Dogberry (the foolish constable in Much Ado About Nothing, who says [Act IV, Scene 2], "though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.").
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a soil in the grave alarm of a titled Dogberry of our neighbourhood, that a spy was actually sent down from the government pour surveillance of myself and friend.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The village "Dogberry" drew nigh with his victim and halted, as empurpled as probably the elder Weller was, after ducking Mr. Stiggins in the horse-trough.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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I play Beatrice, and unfortunately Beatrice and Fillion's character Dogberry don't have one scene together, but I got to see him in passing, but Alexis Denisof was Benedick, so that was a mini-Angel reunion.
Amy Acker Embraces Playing Grimm's Alluring Black Widow 2012
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Like Dogberry, he murders a denunciation as good as cannot keep a train of suspicion starting nonetheless tripping over both ideas as good as words.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Like Dogberry, he murders a denunciation as good as cannot keep a train of suspicion starting nonetheless tripping over both ideas as good as words.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
AnWulf commented on the word Dogberry
Dogberry – an ignorant, self-important official
(From the name of a foolish constable in Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing".)
April 10, 2013