| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...his performance*. Shakspcare, with the English man-of war. lesser in bulk, but lighter in gulling, invention.1 — t'ulltr't H'orthia. llcsidesthe Mermaid. Joneon waa a great f requcnter of a club called... | |
| William Maxwell - 1850 - 502 páginas
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the EnglishMan of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quick ness of his Wit and Invention." But in spite of these odious comparisons of cotemporary critics... | |
| William Maxwell - 1850 - 506 páginas
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow, irl his performances. Shakespeare, with the EnglishMan of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quick ness of his Wit and Invention." But in spite of these odious comparisons of cotemporary critics... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 páginas
...Ben Jonson. I remember them like a Spanish great galleon, and, an English man of war. Master Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning,...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,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 páginas
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. VL, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 páginas
...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," between Shakspeare and Jonson, which Fuller notices, been chronicled by... | |
| George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...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... | |
| Shopkeeper, Robert Kemp Philp - 1853 - 264 páginas
...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... | |
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