 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Such is Thomas Fuller's well-known description of the convivial intercourse of Shakspere and Jonson,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 σελίδες
...far higher in Learning, Solid, but Slow in his performances. Shakespear, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention." Fuller's Worthies ( Warwick.), p. 126, ed. 1 662. For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 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...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit ami invention." § With what delight should we have hung over any well authenticated instances of these... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 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 adranlаge of all winds, by the quickness of hie wit nnd invention." poet's feelings, a dim and shadowy... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 σελίδες
...performances; Sb.ilsjware, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with ill tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit a"'¡ invention." § With what delight should we have hung over any well authenticated instance? of... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 608 σελίδες
...far higher in Learning, Solid, but Slow in his performances. Shakespear, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and tetke advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention." Fuller's Worthies ( Warwick.),... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1808 - 658 σελίδες
...far hiihcr in loaming, solid but slow in hispcrfonnances. Sliakspeare with the I'.n^lirh man-of-nar, lesser in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and lake advantage of all « iinis, by the quickness of Irs wit nnd invention." An epitaph written for... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 σελίδες
...fineness of nature, is a thing as notorious as their fame. Fuller says : " Many were the wit-combates betwixt (Shakspeare) and Ben Jonson, which two I behold...lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with nil tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 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...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention5." The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said anything ill0. Connected... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 σελίδες
...the for- \ mer, was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention5." The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said anything ill0. Connected... | |
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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... 
