 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 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 with all tides, tack about and take •dVantagtof all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." TÜ poet's feelings, a dim and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English manof-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."i I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...(like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English manof-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."i I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1854 - 976 pages
...in Learning, Solid, but Slow in hú performance*. Shakespeare, with the English man of war, leeser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could' turn with...and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of hU Wit and Invention." Falbr** WerOnit (Warwick.), p. 126, éd. 1G62. YOL. I. 4 Had mr.irif to put... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. V. L,, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shalt thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. C. V, L,, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...by the quickness of his wit and invention." . Nor shalt thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in performance. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." — Written about 1650, by Thomas Fuller, born in 1608. Aubrey's Sketch of Shakespeare at second hand.... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning ; solid, bnt slow in performance. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."— Written about 1650, by Thomas Fuller, born in 1608. Aubrey's Sketch of Shakespeare at second hand.... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...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...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and his invention." Enough has been said of this celebrated club by a variety of writers. There can be... | |
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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... 
