I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could... The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Página 401837Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Philip Massinger - 1840 - 756 páginas
...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."— Fuller's Worthies. t A collection of the genuine NOCTES (for there are some spurious, in which the... | |
| Philip Massinger - 1840 - 758 páginas
...Shakspeare, with an English man-of-war,— lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, ve it ? Marc. Whither will this fellow? \_Ari<le. Fran. Pardon, therefore, mada Fuller's Worlhiee. t A collection of the genuine NOCTES (for there are some spurious, in which the... | |
| Philip Massinger - 1840 - 768 páginas
...Shakspeare, with an English man-of-war, — lesser in bulk, but *her ш tnling, «mid turn with all tides, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and «."— FuUer't Worlhiet. ' A nUernon of the genuine Nocns (for there are some spurious, in which the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 páginas
...in learning; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." When Fuller says " I behold," he meant with his " mind's eye ;" for he was only eight years of age... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 páginas
...higher in learning: solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with 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 greater solidity. But... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 páginas
...in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Such is Thomas Fuller's well-known description of the convivial intercourse of Shakspere and Jonson,... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 páginas
...higher in Learning, Solid, but Slow in his performances. Shakespear, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention." Fuller's Worthies ( Warwick.), p. 126, ed. 1 662. For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 608 páginas
...man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and tetke advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention." Fuller's Worthies ( Warwick.), p. 126, ed. 1662. For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For... | |
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 páginas
...Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with nil tides, tack about, and take 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 Junson's greater solidity. But... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 páginas
...higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. VL, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shalt thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more... | |
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