 A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth....  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2101856Full view - About this book
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...and becomes horrible; besides which, Shakespeare, to whom " a quibble," as Dr. Johnson says, " was the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it," has enervated the dialogue with many frigid conceits, which lie ha*, with more than usual impropriety,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 pages
...and becomes horrible; besides which, Shakespeare, to whom " a quibble," as Dr. Johnson says, " was the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it," has enervated the dialogue with many frigid conceits, which he has, with more than usual Impropriety,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra ibr which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. * "But the admirers of thie great poet have never less reason to indulge their hope* of supreme excellence,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...content to purchase it by tne sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the ratal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. . *"But thu admirers of this great poet have never less reason to indulge the it hopes of supreme excellence,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which...he lost the world, and was content to lose it. ' It will be thought strange, that in enumerating the defects of this writer I have not yet mentioned his... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...such (delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reasoti, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which...he lost the world, and was content to lose it. ' It will be thought strange, that iti enumerating the defects of this writer I have not yet mentioned his... | |
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