 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
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 pages
...what was absurdly said of Shakspeare, might with some propriety be said of him, " that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." In a moral and religious point of view, the character of Fuller is entitled to our veneration, and... | |
 | 1854 - 850 pages
...severely censures that writer for playing with words upon serious occasions. 'A quibble,' says he, 'was to him the fatal Cleopatra; for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.' It must, however, be remembered, that though the doctor made sturdy efforts to emancipate the drama from the... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 pages
...severely censures that writer for playing with words upon serious occasions. 'A quibble,' says he, ' was to him the fatal Cleopatra ; for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.' It must, however, be remembered, that though the doctor made sturdy efforts to emancipate the drama from the... | |
 | 1857 - 850 pages
...what was absurdly said of Shakspeare, might with some propriety be said of him, " that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost' the world, and was content to lose it." In a moral and religious point of view, the character of Fuller is entitled to our , veneration, and... | |
 | William Swinton - 1859 - 326 pages
...or dead puns that occur to me, from, Shakespeare. Johnson asserts that a quibble was to Shakespeare the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. This, like the generality of Johnsoniana, has considerable truth, with a vast deal of mere burly assertion... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 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. — Johnsons Preface to Shakspere. This rule must be extended to a proper name, or any word of import... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...him 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. . . . His histories, being neither tragedies nor comedies, are not subject to any of their laws ; nothing... | |
 | William Swinton - 1864 - 312 pages
...dead puns that occur to me, from Shakespeare. Johnson asserts that a quibble was to Shakespeare t!ie fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. This, like the generality of Johnsoniana, has considerable truth, with a vast deal of mere burly assertion... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 pages
...him 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" * Of course, with regard to this last sentence, the retort on the critic is obvious, that for the sake... | |
 | William John Thoms - 1865 - 152 pages
...of odd quirks and remnants of wit;" and I feel sure that those who remember Johnson's remark, " that a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it," will admit that I have some grounds for my belief. Besides, have we not Aubrey's report of his " very... | |
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