Which preposition to use with prates
Ah, we may prate of our superiority to the rest of the world,and God knows, we do!but, at bottom, we are worthless.
" You see both these are good poetry; but after one has been reading Shakspeare twenty of the best years of one's life, to have a fellow start up and prate about some unknown quality which Shakspeare possessed in a degree inferior to Milton and somebody else!
Truly, I" "How now," broke in the Prior in a quivering voice, his eyes glistening and his cheeks red with anger, "dost thou prate to my very beard, sirrah?
My politics are not those of the leather-jaws that prate in this land.
Of Laertes, as yet, we only know that he prates like his father, is self-confident, and was educated at Paris, whither he has returned.
I understand that your sentiments towards me do not partake of that Christian charity of which ye and yours do prate at times so loudly.
{123c} I saw also Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, prating with Nestor and Palamedes; near him were Hyacinthus of Sparta, Narcissus the Thespian, Hylas, and several other beauties: he seemed very fond of Hyacinthus.
How did he prate against wedlock!
His mirth floats eerily down chill corridors; His sighit is a sound that loves a keyhole; His tenderness a faint court-tarnished thing; His wisdom prates as from a wicker cage; His very belly is a pompous nought; His eye a page that hath forgot his errand.
Do not then (concludes the Stoic) take good words in your mouth, and prate before applauding citizens of honour, duty, and so forth, while you make your private lives a mere selfish calculation of expediency.