 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 Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a ... - Стр. cclviавторы: Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - Страниц: 616
...far 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...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." " His name," says Lord Clarendon," " can never be forgotten ; having by his very good learning, and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - Страниц: 624
...far 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...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." " His name," says Lord Clarendon," " can never be forgotten ; having by his very good learning, and... | |
 | 1925 - Страниц: 948
...jnrformances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, in bulk, but lighter in 684 Ben Jonson, the Man. could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." It is a noble comparison, and for those that have eyes to see it bears upon it the fair imprint of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - Страниц: 432
...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...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... | |
 | 1837 - Страниц: 588
...far higher in learning — solid, hut slow in his performances : Shakspeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Who that now sips his Claret at Crockford's would not prefer to have dropt in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
 | 1822 - Страниц: 492
...performances ;" and Shakspeare, " like an English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, that could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." Who that insipidly sips Noyau at White's, would not prefer to have dropped in at the Mermaid in Cornhill,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - Страниц: 572
...war, '• lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack " about and lake advantage of all 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... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - Страниц: 708
...Ben Jonson. I behold .them like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man of war. Master Jonsou, like the former, was built far higher in learning,...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." This farfetched simile of the quaint biographer is no very happy illustration of conversational powers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - Страниц: 216
...residuary legatees , he gives " all the rest of his goods , chattels , leases , plate , j«wels, etc." tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention. " This farfetched simile of the quaint biographer is no very happy illustration of conversational powers... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - Страниц: 536
...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 Shakspearc and Jonson, which Fuller notices, been chronicled... | |
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