 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...  The Essays of Elia - Σελίδα 32των Charles Lamb - 1894 - 425 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 σελίδες
...Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." — Written about 1650, by Thomas Fuller, born in 1608. Aubrey's Sketch of Shakespeare at second hand.... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 σελίδες
...Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and his invention." Enough has been said of this celebrated club by a variety of writers. There can be... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 σελίδες
...L,, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou. their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1857 - 232 σελίδες
...performances : Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Who that now sips his claret at White's would not prefer to have dropped in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 σελίδες
...performances. Shakespeare — like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailingcould turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention/ " We pointed out to the editor, that Fuller was only eight years old when Shakespeare died, and therefore... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 σελίδες
...Shake-spear, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Having established the fact of their firm friendship, cordial intimacy, and constant intercourse, let... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 σελίδες
...Shake-spear, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Having established the fact of their firm friendship, cordial intimacy, and constant intercourse, let... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 σελίδες
...Shakespeare— like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing — could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention.5 " We pointed out to the editor, that Fuller was only eight years old when Shakespeare died,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 σελίδες
...Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention1." The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said anything ill'. Connected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 σελίδες
...Shake-speare with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, two more cal i0 invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary... | |
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