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[14] Miss Quince, the encloser in this case, probably resented

Letter 423 2009

An author's first or second play is important mainly -- to use Whitman's phrase -- as "an encloser of things to be."

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I an encloser of things to be. 1145

Walt Whitman 1900

His coming had broken in on the slumber of circumstance, widening the present till it became the encloser of remotest chances.

The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899

Legal documents prove him to have been a lender of small sums, an avid creditor, a would-be encloser of commons.

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

Shakspere, the purchaser of the right to bear arms; so bad at paying one debt at least; so eager a creditor; a would-be encloser of a common; a man totally bookless, is, to Mr. Greenwood's mind, an impossible author of the later plays.

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

God, in thus confining men to one, has been so far from putting any hardship upon them that he has really consulted their true interest; for, as Mr. Herbert observes, "If God had laid all common, certainly man would have been the encloser."

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Must of got board with it's tiny encloser in freezing Dalton.

Evening Mail news round-up 2010

Must of got board with it's tiny encloser in freezing Dalton.

Evening Mail news round-up 2010