...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.) For his other deviations from the art of writing, I resign him to critical justice, without making...

...that if he did, the strong pleasure of evolving his own personal impressions was " the fatal Capua for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." Shakspeare manages the matter differently ; he never describes the appearance of his heroines, but...

...peculiarities he has in common with his great predecessor, as for instance his " puns," the Cleopatras for which he lost the world and was content to lose it — our author has one which rivals the ovn; of Homer or the "Roam hither then" of Shakspeare. Lord...

...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...will be thought strange, that, in enumerating the defect* of this writer, 1 have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities; his violation of those...

...symbols of intellectual worship. May I be permitted also to add one question as to his quibbles—" the fatal Cleopatra. for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." Allow the custom of the age ; admit the propensity of the writer. But are they all his own ? Are none...

...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...that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I hare not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of those laws which have been instituted...

...defended him from the neglect of what are called the unities. The observation, that a quibble was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it, is more pointed than just. Shakspeare cannot be said to have lost the world ; for his fame has not...

...career, or stoop from his elevation. A pun, 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. He resembles the cat, which, according to ^Esop's fable, was transformed into a lady, and for a time...

...what was absurdly said of Shakspeare, might with some propriety be said of him, ' that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.' In a moral and religious point of view, the character of Fuller is entitled to our veneration, and...

...what was absurdly said of Shakspeare, might with some propriety be said of him, " that a pun was the Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it." In a moral and religious point of view, the character of Fuller is entitled to our veneration, and...