 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...higher in Learning; Solid, but Sloiv'm his performances. Shake-spear, with the English-man of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention.17 Fuller (born 1608) could just have witnessed a wit-combat but, as others have noted, more... | |
 | Quotations - 2001 - 838 pages
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 | James Bednarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 358 pages
...higher in Learning; Solid, but Slow, in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention. 1 Fuller cleverly evokes their conflict as an epic struggle that reenacted the sea battle of the Armada—with... | |
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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... 
