| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died anno Domini 16 . . , and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity. This... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' This happy illustration could only have been founded on tradition, for Fuller belonged to a later generation;... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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...all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died A,D. 1616, and was buried at Stratford-upon-Avon, the town of his nativity." Among the crowd... | |
| William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 510 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... | |
| Samuel Schoenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...$'ir\ ; Ai& o/Kf £fe ^ A '^JKi' ^' 34. L'Estrange's anecdote of Shakespeare and Jonson, 1629-55. lish man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing,...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died Anno Domini 16... and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity.13 'Which... | |
| Charles Martindale - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 340 pages
...Spanish great galleon... was built far higher in learning', and Shakespeare like an English man of war 'could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention'.7 It may be unfair to Jonson, but it is an admirable description of the difference between... | |
| James Shapiro - English drama - 1991 - 234 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. [H&S 11:510] Herford and the Simpsons are sufficiently drawn to the account to place some credence... | |
| Abraham Moses Klein - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 304 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. - Fuller's Worthies It is inconceivable, finally, that Untermeyer proofread his galleys: 'Clearest... | |
| R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...higher in Learning; Solid, but Slow, in 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.9 Fuller presents these celebrated wit-combats as a replay of the Spanish Armada, in which... | |
| Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 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...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention'. Thomas Plume, around 1657, said Shakespeare was a glover's son and that 'Will was a good honest fellow,... | |
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