 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 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." This farfetched simile of the quaint biographer is no very happy illustration of conversational powers... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 402 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." This farfetched simile of the quaint biographer is no very happy illustration of conversational powers... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 372 pages
...built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances; Shakespeare, like the latter, less in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." With what delight should we have hung over any well authenticated instances of these " wit-combats... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...(like the former) was built far higher in learn* ing ; 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." * I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." * I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas between... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Explorers - 1830 - 522 pages
...was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, like the latter, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." Fuller, vol. ii. p. 415. ; Jensen. The result of such communications as these, is frequently a close... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 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...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 - English essays - 1835 - 350 pages
...was built far higher in learning: solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspeare, with theEnglish man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing,...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... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...built far higher in learning, solid, but alow in his performances. CVL, 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 a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 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...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." Nor shall thou, their compeer, be quickly forgotten, Allen, with a cordial smile, and still more cordial... | |
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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 with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing,... 
