 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...his performance*. Shakspcare, with the English man-of war. lesser in bulk, but lighter in gulling, invention.1 — t'ulltr't H'orthia. llcsidesthe Mermaid. Joneon waa a great f requcnter of a club called... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1850 - 490 pages
...Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. VL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compaer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial laugh, with which... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 502 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the EnglishMan of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quick ness of his Wit and Invention." But in spite of these odious comparisons of cotemporary critics... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 506 pages
...higher in learning ; solid, but slow, irl his performances. Shakespeare, with the EnglishMan of War, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quick ness of his Wit and Invention." But in spite of these odious comparisons of cotemporary critics... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1851 - 396 pages
...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...thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with the cordial smile, and still more cordial laugh, with which thou wert wont to make the old Cloisters... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...was built far higher in learning, solid but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Of these encounters of the keenest intellects not a vestige now remains. The memory of Fuller, perhaps,... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...solid, but slow in his performanee. Shakspere, like an English man of- war, lesser in bulk, but higher in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Frauds Meres, MA, now publishes his "noted schoolbook." called " Wit's Treasury," which is a collection... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - English literature - 1853 - 290 pages
...far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspere, like an English man of war, lesser in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' Jonson (a warm hearted man, as well as a sterling writer) declares, ' I do love the man and honor his... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...like the former, was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances : Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quiekness of his wit and invention3." The simile is well chosen, and it eame from a writer who seldom... | |
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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... 
