| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 sider
...apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that...it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth ;" and, lastly, the meteor, the bird of game, and the golden apple are converted into the renowned... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 sider
...apple for which he will always turn aside from bis career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that...it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth ;" and, lastly, the meteor, the bird of game, and the golden apple are converted into the renowned... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 sider
...he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quihhle, poor and harren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it hy the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth ;" and, lastly, the meteor, the hird of game, and... | |
| William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 sider
...be of a quibble, which, says Dr. Johnson, with more solemnity and dignity than the subject requires, "was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ; " yet he has few of what may be termed real bargains ; which is singular enough, if we consider how... | |
| 1828 - 410 sider
...golden apple for which he will turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that...A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which lie lost the world, and was content to lose it." This strain surely savours of hyper-critical extravagance,... | |
| David Booth - 1831 - 366 sider
...apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that...which he lost the world and was content to lose it." Notwithstanding this severe denounciation there have been Puns so indicative of Genius as to be well... | |
| John Genest - 1832 - 634 sider
...to do : he is not long soft and pathetic, without some idle conceit, or contemptible equivocation : a quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected : when he found himself... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 sider
...apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand,...the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities; his violation of those laws which have been instituted... | |
| Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 sider
...apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble,"1 poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that...by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble"1 was to him the fatal Cleopatra, for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 sider
...apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, st ; but the pleasures 01 sudden wonder are soon exhausted,...can only repose on the stability of truth. Shaksp c tod truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content... | |
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