 | 1845 - 570 páginas
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspere, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter...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 when... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 542 páginas
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning: solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 páginas
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning : solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 páginas
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning : solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...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 Lamb - 1845 - 396 páginas
...built far 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more... | |
 | 1845 - 410 páginas
...but slow in his performances. Shakspere, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk but lighter hi sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and...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... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1845 - 398 páginas
...performances;' Shakspere, ' like an English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, that could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention'?—Who that now muddles away his mornings at White's would not rather have dropped in at... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 páginas
...Shakspeare — like the latter — 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." Of Ben himself, Fuller, in another place, says, " His parts were not so able to run themselves as to... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 páginas
...in his performances ; Shakspeare, 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 speaks further of Ben, as a man whose parts " were not so ready to run of themselves as able... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 páginas
...at the convivial meetings at the Mermaid club, established by Sir Walter Raleigh ;* and he adds, " O 2+_ 0 n3+ ́ U ` 8!_ yZ ] Xʖs6@ g $ \ I \7 ...for, I know, thou worship's! saint Nicholas as tr invention."2 The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said any thing ill.* Connected... | |
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Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare... 
