...appla Inr which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, st dreadful thing: for there is not a more fearful...Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must wil! be though! strange, that, in enumerating the defects of this wFiterTTbavc not yet mentioned Kis...

...golden 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." To these remarks I will only add that, to me, Shakespeare in comedy has frequently seemed to be only...

...Macaulay 's ' heroworship,' as Dr. Johnson says of Shakespeare's liking for a quibble, that ' it was the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, a*nd was content to lose it,' 1 this weakness must surely be termed a most serious fault in his history. His warmest admirers will...

...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. Works, v. n8. YET it must be at last confessed that, as we owe every thing to him, he owes something...

...Bassanio. Dr Johnson says that a quibble had 'a malignant power over Shakespeare's mind,' and that it was to him ' the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ;' so that I do not object to a pun here as beneath the dignity of the Doge or of the occasion, but...

...Bassanio. Dr Johnson says that a quibble had ' a malignant power over Shakespeare's mind,' and that it was to him 'the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it ;' so that I do not object to a pun here as beneath the dignity of the Doge or of the occasion, but...

...whom Johnson dared not criticise with honest boldness. 'A quibble,' he writes, 'was to Shakespeare the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it8.' No one has bestowed loftier praise on Milton than Johnson, no one has done him more 'illustrious...

...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...

...and becomes horrible; besides which, Shakespeare, to whom »a quibble«, as Dr. Johnson says, »was the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it« , has enervated the dialogue with many frigid conceits, which he has, with more than usual impropriety,...

...two words were pronounced alike. 'A quibble,' says Dr Johnson, in his Preface, ' was to Shakespeare the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.' — ED. 118. Brat] MURRAY (NE Z>.) : Of uncertain origin; Wedgwood, E. Mailer, and Skeat think it the...