 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 σελίδες
...was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Of these encounters of the keenest intellects not a vestige now remains. The memory of Fuller, perhaps,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 σελίδες
...farmer) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shaksptare, with an English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' Had these. ' Wit-combats,"... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 σελίδες
...solid, but slow in his performanee. Shakspere, like an English man of- war, lesser in bulk, but higher in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Frauds Meres, MA, now publishes his "noted schoolbook." called " Wit's Treasury," which is a collection... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - 1853 - 290 σελίδες
...far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspere, like an English man of war, lesser in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' Jonson (a warm hearted man, as well as a sterling writer) declares, ' I do love the man and honor his... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 σελίδες
...like the former, was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quiekness of his wit and invention3." The simile is well chosen, and it eame from a writer who seldom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 σελίδες
...far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspere, like an English man of war, lesser in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take •dVantagtof all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." TÜ poet's feelings, a dim and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 σελίδες
...slow in his performances : Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter.in 'd me to this unseasoned intrusion, for, they say, if money go before, all ways 1 See the e.xtract from a "ballad on Marlowe (p. xxxi.). This circumstance, had he known it, would... | |
 | Shopkeeper, Robert Kemp Philp - 1853 - 264 σελίδες
...like the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, would turn with all the tides, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." It is probable that from about the year 1605 Shakspere ceased to be a player, though he continued to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 σελίδες
...between him and Shakspeare, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war. Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between which... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 σελίδες
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English manof-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."i I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas... | |
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I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could... 
