 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
 | 1826 - Страниц: 372
...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 - Страниц: 332
...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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - Страниц: 334
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - Страниц: 482
...higher in learn* ing ; 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." * I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - Страниц: 474
...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." * I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - Страниц: 522
...like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing,...of his wit and invention." Fuller, vol. ii. p. 415. ; Jensen. The result of such communications as these, is frequently a close intimacy between such of... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 460
...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 - Страниц: 342
...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." This is a happy simile, with the exception of what is insinuated about Jonson's greater solidity. But... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - Страниц: 306
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - Страниц: 344
...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... | |
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