...even if she did, the worst that can be urged is that a pun was to Shakespeare, in Dr Johnson's words, the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. It is one of his idiosyncrasies and we must put up with it. Has he not himself taught us that a friend...

...dead puns that occur to me, from Shakespeare. Johnson asserts that a quibble was to Shakespeare he 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...

...incorrect as it is highly coloured and eulogistic. It was said of Thomas Fuller, that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ; and we fear that, with equal propriety, it may be said of Lord Macaulay, that antithesis is the Cleopatra...

...mere " quibble" which allured him from the " dignity and profundity of his disquisitions," nor the "Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it,' ' but it was the aroma which sprung from the blossoms of his genius and the flowers of his philanthropy....

...such delight, that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety,. and truth. her prologue must tell, be is not a lion. /l"t. Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must wil! be though! strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this wFiterTTbavc not yet mentioned Kis...

...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." To these remarks I will only add that, to me, Shakespeare in comedy has frequently seemed to be only...

...Macaulay 's ' heroworship,' as Dr. Johnson says of Shakespeare's liking for a quibble, that ' it was the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, a*nd was content to lose it,' 1 this weakness must surely be termed a most serious fault in his history. His warmest admirers will...

...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. Works, v. n8. YET it must be at last confessed that, as we owe every thing to him, he owes something...

...Bassanio. Dr Johnson says that a quibble had ' a malignant power over Shakespeare's mind,' and that it was to him 'the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ;' so that I do not object to a pun here as beneath the dignity of the Doge or of the occasion, but...

...Bassanio. Dr Johnson says that a quibble had 'a malignant power over Shakespeare's mind,' and that it was to him ' the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ;' so that I do not object to a pun here as beneath the dignity of the Doge or of the occasion, but...