 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 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... | |
 | 1856 - 838 pages
...of Shakespeare. He is precisely such a Shakespeare as entered into Dr Johnson's imagination when he said. " A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for...lose it." It must be confessed that although most of Mi- Planches extravaganzas are published, there is not one of them that is readable. They are meant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 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 - 1821 - 676 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, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 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 - 1823 - 350 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 - 1823 - 526 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...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 - 1823 - 432 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. / which have been instituted and established by the joint authority of poets and criticks. For his... | |
 | 1823 - 696 pages
...defended him from the neglect of what are called the unities. The observation, that a quibble was the uld not sleep if his evening prayer had been forgotten," is one, is more pointed than just. Shakspeare cannot be said to have lost the world ; for his fame has not... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...such delight, that he v\as content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. ] Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward? Is death to be will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
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