| 1826 - 372 pages
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances; Shakespeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." With what delight should we have hung over any well authenticated instances of these " wit-combats... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 pages
...honourable memorial of the fallea greatness of the one, and of the independence of the other — EDITOR. advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's great solidity. But... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1826 - 332 pages
...honourable memorial of the fallen greatness of the one, and of the independence of the other.— EDITOR. advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's great solidity. But... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...Johnson (like the former) was built far higher in learn* ing ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man of war, lesser in...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." * I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...war. Johnson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man of war, lesser in...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." * I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 pages
...was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." Fuller, vol. ii. p. 415. ; Jensen. The result of such communications as these, is frequently a close... | |
| 1831 - 460 pages
...learning—solid, but slow in bis performances ; Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in Bailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." \frho that now sips his Novau at White's, but would prefer to have dropt in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 pages
...master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning: solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man of war, lesser in...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's greater solidity. But... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 344 pages
...Shakspeare, with an English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Had these " Wit-combats," between Shakspeare and Jonson, which Fuller notices, been chronicled by some... | |
| John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...SHAKSPEABE, with the English Man of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with ALL TIDES, and take advantage of ALL WINDS, by the quickness of his wit and invention!" FILLER. BRIEF MEMOIR Peerless Shakspeare brightly shone With a splendour not his own, While, with eloquence... | |
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