...work unfinished. A quibble"] is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble,"] poor and...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. — Johnsons Preface to Shakspere. This rule must be extended to a proper name, or any word of import...

...work unfinished ! A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. . . . His histories, being neither tragedies nor comedies, are not subject to any of their laws ; nothing...

...dead puns that occur to me, from Shakespeare. Johnson asserts that a quibble was to Shakespeare t!ie fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. This, like the generality of Johnsoniana, has considerable truth, with a vast deal of mere burly assertion...

...iii. 7. t De Arte Poeticd, 182-188. + Introduction to the Literature of Europe, III. 577. his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren...which he lost the world, and was content to lose it" * Of course, with regard to this last sentence, the retort on the critic is obvious, that for the sake...

...enchaining it in suspense, let but a quibble spring up before him and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such...by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth." They who choose may agree with this Johnsonian criticism; but do not let them forget that Shakespeare,...

...of odd quirks and remnants of wit;" and I feel sure that those who remember Johnson's remark, " that a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it," will admit that I have some grounds for my belief. Besides, have we not Aubrey's report of his " very...

...turn aside from his career ; a quibble, poor and barren as it is, gives him such delight that he is content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth." In this Shakspearian spirit our lawyers have acted. They have pursued their quibbles with the ardor...

...— "A quibble is to Shakspeare the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, ^s clothes, CELIA drest like a Shepherdess, and TOUCHSTONE....Jupiter! how weary 13 are my spirits ! Touch. 1 care not at the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth ;" and, lastly, the meteor, the bird of game, and...

...dead puns that occur to me, from Shakespeare. Johnson asserts that a quibble was to Shakespeare he fatal Cleopatra for which he lost .the world, and was content to lose it. This, like the generality of Johnsoniana, has considerable truth, with a vast deal of mere burly assertion...

...incorrect as it is highly coloured and eulogistic. It was said of Thomas Fuller, that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ; and we fear that, with equal propriety, it may be said of Lord Macaulay, that antithesis is the Cleopatra...