 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...auch delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. ?D 8 will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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 - 1826 - 540 pages
...golden apple are converted into the renowned queen of Egypt : for " a quihhle is to him (Shakspeare) the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it!" Shakspeare lost the world ! He won it in an age of intellectual giants — the Anakims of mind were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...golden apple are converted into the renowned queen of Egypt : for " a qiiibble is to him (Shakspeare) the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it!" Shakspeare lost the world ! He won it in an age of intellectual giants-^the Anukiins of mind were then... | |
 | William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 pages
...be of a quibble, which, says Dr. Johnson, with more solemnity and dignity than the subject requires, "was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ; " yet he has few of what may be termed real bargains ; which is singular enough, if we consider how... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 366 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." Notwithstanding this severe denounciation there have been Puns so indicative of Genius as to be well... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 634 pages
...to do : he is not long soft and pathetic, without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation : a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected : when he found himself... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 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 - 1833 - 1140 pages
...such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. 4 : , will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer,! have not yet mentioned his... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble"1 was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. — Johnson's Preface to Shakspeare. In this passage quibble is evidently the principal subject; it... | |
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